Mikołaj z Chrzanowa

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Mikołaj z Chrzanowa (1485–1562) was a Polish composer and organist during the Renaissance. Not much is known about his early life. He studied at the Kraków Academy from 1507 and earned his degree in 1513. In 1518 he became the organist at Wawel Cathedral, a position he held until his death. He also led the cathedral choir, Kapela Rorantystów, and supervised the building of organs, even traveling to Biecz in 1543 to oversee the work.

His only known musical work is the motet Protexisti me, Deus. It survives in tablature notation in the 16th-century Wawel Part-Books. A later version of the same piece appears in the Łowicz Organ Tablature of 1580, with the initials N.Ch., which are thought to refer to the composer.