Schutz (Master Musicians Series)
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Hardcover - 240 pages (July 2000) Usually ships within 2-3 days.
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Synopsis
Regarded as one of the greatest composers in early musical history,
Heinrich Schutz cultivated all the principal forms of Lutheran sacred
music, 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 the German biblical language, the full magnitude of his
achievement has only gradually been recognized outside his native
country. Here Basil Smallman brings the composer and his work vividly
alive for the non-German reader. His principal works are examined in
chronological order, with interspersed biographical chapters covering his
years in Italy and Denmark, his relationships with leading musicians and
patrons, the hardships of the Thirty Years War, and the machinations of
court life. One of the greatest creative figures of his time, Schutz
emerges as a giant amongst his lesser contemporaries. This book will
bring him and his work to a new and international audience.