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Letters and documents of Heinrich Schütz, 1656-1672 : an annotated translation / by Gina Spagnoli ; with a foreword by Werner Breig.

Author/creator	Schütz, Heinrich, 1585-1672
Other author/creator	Spagnoli, Gina, author, translator.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Research Press, ©1990.
Description	xx, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Schütz, Heinrich, 1585-1672--Correspondence. Schütz, Heinrich, 1585-1672--Archives. Composers--Germany --17th century --Correspondence. Music--Germany --17th century --History and criticism.

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Cover title	Letter & documents of Heinrich Schütz, 1656-1672
Series	Studies in music (UMI Research Press) ; no. 106 Studies in music (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ; no. 106. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents	Foreword / Werner Breig -- Preface -- Part one: commentary. Dresden. The death of Johann Georg I -- The Italianate controversy in Dresden -- Music in Dresden during the reign of Johann Georg II -- Italian influence in the theater -- Schütz's final years -- Performance practice in Dresden -- Wolfenbüttel. Schütz and the Guelf courts -- The Wolfenbüttel court ensemble before Schütz -- The new duke and duchess -- Rebuilding the court ensemble -- Rebuilding Wolfenbüttel -- Growth of the ensemble -- Court spectacles -- Schütz's later contacts with Wolfenbüttel -- Zeitz -- Duties of the court musician in Schütz's sphere. The kapellmeister -- The vice-kapellmeister -- The court cantor -- The organists -- The Kalkant -- The court trumpeters -- Tafelmusik -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Dresden court ensemble lists from 1662, 1680, and 1717 --
Contents	Part two: documents. Schütz to Christian Reichbrodt, Dresden, 21 September 1647 -- Schütz to Johann Georg I, Dresden, 14 January 1651 -- Schütz to Heinrich Taube, Jacob Weller, and Christian Reichbrodt, Dresden, 21 August 1653 -- Schütz to Johann Georg II, 23 August 1653 -- Johann Georg II to Johann Georg I, 30 September 1653 -- Schütz to the chamberlain, Dresden, 19 June 1654 -- Johann Georg Hofkontz and Christoph Kittel to Jacob Weller, Dresden, 30 November 1654 ; Jacob Weller to Johann Georg I, Dresden, 3 December 1654 -- Vincenzo Albrici's contract as kapellmeister, undated -- Christoph Bernhard's contract as alto, Dresden, 1 August 1649 -- Christoph Bernhard's contract as vice-kapellmeister. Heinrich Taube to Johann Georg I, Dresden, 1 August 1655 -- Schütz's prefatory letter to Constantin Christian Dedekind's Aelbianische Musenlust, Weissenfels, 21 September 1657 -- Schütz's travel pass from Johann Georg II, Frankfurt am Main, 8 April 1658 -- Johann Georg II's chapel order, undated -- Johann Georg II to the president and advisors of the Privy Chamber of Dresden, Dresden, 27 March 1663 -- Schütz to Johann Georg II, Dresden, 1 May 1666 -- Schütz to Johann Georg II, Dresden, 3 May 1666 -- Schütz to an unnamed patron, undated -- Dresden instrument chamber catalog, 1681 -- Schütz to Sophie Elisabeth, Brunswick, 22 October 1644 -- Schütz to Sophie Elisabeth, Brunswick, 17 March 1645 -- Schütz to the Wolfenbüttel court, undated -- Schütz's poem "Der Musen Glükwünschung," 1650 -- Sophie Elisabeth to Schütz, Wolfenbüttel, 22 June 1655 -- Johann Jacob Löwe von Eisenach's contract as kapellmeister, Wolfenbüttel, 24 June 1655 -- Schütz to Sophie Elisabeth, Dresden, 24 July 1655 -- Schütz's contract as kapellmeister in absentia, Wolfenbüttel, 23 August 1655 -- Sophie Elisabeth to Schütz, Wolfenbüttel, 10 November 1655 -- Schütz to Sophie Elisabeth, Dresden, 27 November 1655 -- Sophie Elisabeth to Schütz, Wolfenbüttel, 2 January 1656 -- Schütz's autograph receipt, Dresden, Michaelmas 1656 -- Schütz's autograph receipt, Michaelmas 1658 ; Statement of Schütz's wages, Wolfenbüttel, 1 May 1660 -- Johann Jacob Löwe von Eisenach to Schütz, Wolfenbüttel, 5 May 1660 -- Statement of Schütz's wages, Wolfenbüttel, 5 June 1660 -- Statement of Schütz's wages, Wolfenbüttel, 6 June 1660 -- Schütz to Duke August, Dresden, 10 April 1661 -- Schütz's autograph receipt, Teplitz, 21 May 1663 -- Statement of Schütz's wages, 3 October 1663 -- Schütz to Duke August, Leipzig, 10 January 1664 -- Catalog of Schütz's published works, undated -- Statement of Schütz's wages, 28 April 1665 -- Schütz to Duke Moritz, Dresden, 14 July 1663 -- Duke Moritz to Schütz, undated -- Schütz to Duke Moritz, Dresden, Michaelmas 1663 -- Schütz to the superintendent in Zeitz, undated -- Schütz to Philipp Hainhofer, Augsburg, 23 April 1632.
Abstract	Concentrating on the period after the death of the Saxon elector, Johann Georg I, this edition examines the sources published by Mueller, and supplements them with a detailed commentary and further documents which provide a context for the composer's letters.
General note	Documents translated from the German.
General note	Originally presented as Spagnoli's thesis (Ph. D.).
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-387) and index.
LCCN	89005204
ISBN	0835719022 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

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