Succentor

Succentor is the name for a church music office.

In medieval cathedrals this office exercised an often academically trained musician. In Protestant school choirs, it refers to the representatives and agents of the choirmaster.

Johann Gottfried Walther, Lexicon of Musical 1732

" Succenteur ( gall. ) succentor (Latin ) so heisset some Cathedral - Churches in Franck realm of the underworld = Cantor. Otherwise, it also means a bass player. "