| Series |
The master musicians
Master musicians series. ^A260201
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| Contents |
Map of Northern and Central Europe after 1648 -- The early years, 1585-1612 ; The first visit to Venice -- The Italian madrigals of 1611 -- The move to Dresden in 1617 -- The music of 1619-23: the Psalmen Davids and the Resurrection history -- The music of 1625-8: the Cantiones sacrae and the Becker Psalter -- The return to Venice in 1628: the Symphoniae Sacrae I -- Dresden and Copenhagen, 1630-6: the Musikalische Exequien -- War and desolation, 1636-45. The Kleine geistliche Konzerte -- Change and controversy, 1645-56 ; The death of the Elector Johann Georg I -- The music of 1645-7: the Seven Words of Christ and the Symphoniae Sacrae II. |
| Abstract |
Now widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in early musical history, Heinrich Schutz cultivated, in the context of his Lutheran faith, all the principal forms of sacred music of his time, serving as Kapellmeister to the electoral court at Dresden from 1615 to his death in 1672. Since, however, his work is so intensely bound up with German biblical language, the full magnitude of his achievement has only gradually been recognized outside his native country. By means of translations and of references to English biblical sources and to wider literary and artistic models, the author brings the composer and his work vividly alive for the non-German reader. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-209) and index. |
| LCCN | 99042131 |
| ISBN | 0198166745 |
