In 1614 he went to Dresden to supervise the music for the christening of the son of the elector of Saxony, and in 1617 the landgrave gave him a permanent post in the electoral chapel.
Riesener was the son of an usher in the law courts of the elector of Cologne.
In 1505, he was hired as the court painter and decorator to the Elector of Saxony, Frederick the Wise.
The elector of the Palatinate, the Wittelsbach Charles Theodore, now became ruler over the Wittelsbach territory of Bavaria as well.
The real winner in the conflict proved to be Frederick William, the elector of Brandenburg and duke of Prussia.
The conventual estates were extensive, and its feudatories included the elector of Hanover and the king of Prussia.
In 1719 he became architect and painter at the court of the elector of the Palatinate (in Germany).
In 1514 Uriel von Gemmingen had died, and Albrecht von Brandenburg had become the elector of Mainz.
In 1741 the Elector of Saxony paid 400,000 thalers for it, more than it cost him to build the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany, Europe's largest Protestant church.
He received the title of Court Composer from the Elector of Saxony and, on a visit to Berlin, astonished Frederick the Great with his improvisations.
The powerful Protestant elector of Saxony refused to join, and by 1617, when the union came up for renewal, several members had defected (notably the elector of Brandenburg).
