| Uniform title | Works. Selections. English |
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Youth and early manhood (1611-27) -- Middle age (1628-44) -- Old age (1645-56) -- Last years (1657-72). |
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Youth and early manhood (1611-27). Il primo libro de madrigali (Venice, 1611): title page and dedication (1 May 1611) (Original language: Italian) -- Johann Georg I, elector of Saxony, to Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (27 August 1614) -- Johann Georg I to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (25 April 1615) -- Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Johann Georg I (27 April 1615) -- Schutz to Christoph von Loss, privy councillor and marshal of the court (23 September 1616); Johann Georg I's reply (30 September 1616) -- Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Schutz (1 December 1616) -- Christoph von Loss to Johann Georg I (11 December 1616) -- Johann Georg I to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (13 December 1616) -- Schutz to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (16 December 1616) -- Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Schutz (23 December 1616) -- Dresden Court to Schutz (? July 1617) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (15 April 1618) -- Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Johann Georg I (11 January 1619) -- Johann Georg I to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (25 January 1619) -- Psalmen Davids (Dresden, 1619): title page and dedication -- Psalmen Davids (1619): title page and preface from the basso continuo partbook -- Schutz to the city council of Frankfurt am Main (17 July 1619) -- Schutz's poem on the occasion of Georg Schutz's wedding (9 August 1619) -- Schutz to Ludwig Wilhelm Moser, court chamber secretary (3 July 1621) -- Schutz's text to Syncharma musicum (3 November 1621) (Original language: Latin) -- Schutz's text to Teutoniam dudum belli (3 November 1621) (Original language: Latin) -- Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi (Dresden, 1623): title page and preface (25 March 1623) -- Schutz to Wilhelm Ludwig Moser (25 May 1624) -- Schutz to Wilhelm Ludwig Moser (30 December 1624) -- Cantiones sacrae (Freiberg, 1625): foreword to the reader (Original language: Latin) -- Schutz to the attention of Johann Georg I (before 17 March 1625) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (28 March 1625) -- Dresden court musicians to Johann Georg I (11 June 1625) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (22 September 1626) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (9 May 1627) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (after 26 May 1627) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (2 August 1627) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (? September 1627) -- Da pacem, Domine for the electoral assembly in Muhlhausen (4 October to 5 November 1627): dedication and performance instructions (Original language: Latin and German) -- Schutz to an unnamed person (October/November 1627) -- Johann Georg I to Johann Sautor, court chamberlain (15 November 1627) -- Johann Sautor to Johann Georg I (11 December 1627) -- Johann Georg I to Johann Sautor (18 December 1627) -- |
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Middle age (1628-4). Schutz to Georg Pflugk, marshal of the palace (early 1628) -- Dresden court musicians directed to Johann Georg I (Palm Sunday, 6 April 1628 [Julian calendar]) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (22 April 1628) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (10 July 1628) -- Schutz to Georg Pflugk (14 July 1628) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (3 November 1628) -- Becker Psalter (Freiberg, 1628): title page and dedication to electress Hedwig, Duchess of Saxony (6 September 1627) -- Becker Psalter (Freiberg, 1628): preface to the reader -- Becker Psalter (Freiberg, 1628): two memoranda to the reader -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (29 June 1629) -- Symphoniae sacrae I (Venice, 1629): title page and dedication (19 August 1629) (Original language: Latin) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (24 August 1629) -- Excerpt from Philipp Hainhofer's travelogue (27 October 1629) -- Schutz to Georg Pflugk (late 1629) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (late 1629 or early 1630) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (22 April 1630) -- Schütz directed to Johann Georg I (mid 1630?) -- Schutz's Elegy on the death of Johann Hermann Schein (19 November 1630) (Original language: Latin) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (presumably January 1631) -- Schutz to Georg Pflugk (28 February 1631) -- Schutz to Philipp Hainhofer (23 April 1632) -- Schutz to Friedrich Lebzelter (6/16 February 1633) -- Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (9 February 1633) -- Friedrich Lebzelter to Christian (V), Prince-elect of Denmark (15 February 1633) -- Friedrich Lebzelter to Christian (V), Prince-elect of Denmark (13 November 1633) -- Memorandum regarding preparations for Schutz's appointment to the Danish court (late 1633) -- Schutz's entry in Joachim Morsius's Stammbuch (21 January 1634) (Original language: Latin) -- Zacharias Hestius directed to Johann Georg I (23 April 1634) -- Christian IV, King of Denmark, to Johann Georg I (25 May 1635) -- Danish travel pass issued to Schutz (25 May 1635) -- Musicalische Exequien (Dresden, 1636): title page and dedication -- Musicalische Exequien (Dresden, 1636): Elegy on the death of Heinrich posthumus Reuss -- Musicalische Exequien (Dresden, 1636): memoranda and instructions for performance -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (9 August 1636) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (after 9 August 1636) -- Kleine geistliche Concerte I (Leipzig, 1636): title page and dedication (29 September 1636) -- Schutz directed to Georg Pflugk (1 February 1637) -- Printing patent granted Schutz by Emperor Ferdinand III (3 April 1637) -- Danish travel pass intended for Schutz (16-31 March 1639) -- Kleine geistliche Concerte II (Dresden, 1639): title page and dedication to Friedrich III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (2 June 1639) -- Dresden court musicians to the court privy councillor (21 October 1640) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (7 March 1641) -- Schutz to Johann Georg II, electoral prince of Saxony (14 September 1641) -- Schutz to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (25 April 1642) -- Schutz's second appointment to the Royal Danish court (3 May 1642) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (15 July 1642) -- Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg (22 October 1644) -- |
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Old age (1645-56). Schutz to the Wolfenbuttel court (early 1645) -- Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg 17 March 1645) -- Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (21 May 1645) -- Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (28 September 1645) -- Johann Klemm to Johann Samuel Schein (9 March 1646) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (24 May 1646) -- Schutz directed to Jacob Weller, senior court chaplain (30 July 1646) -- Schutz to Christian Schirmer (7 September 1646) (Original language: Latin) -- Heinrich II Reuss to Schutz (22 October 1646) -- Schutz to Martin Knabe (30 October 1646) -- Bautzen town council to Schutz (5 March 1647) -- Schutz to the Bautzen town council (14 March 1647) -- Bautzen town council to Schutz (11 April 1647) -- Schutz to the Bautzen town council (28 April 1647) -- Symphoniae sacrae II (Dresden, 1647): title page and dedication (1 May 1647) -- Symphoniae sacrae II (Dresden, 1647): preface to the reader -- Symphoniae sacrae II (Dresden, 1647): appended list of published works -- Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (between 20 June and 22 July 1647) -- Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt, privy chamber secretary (21 September 1647) -- Johann Georg II to Johann Georg I (29 September 1647) -- Schutz to August, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (28 December 1647) -- Schutz to Wilhelm IV, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (6 January 1648) -- August of Saxe-Weissenfels to Schutz (18 January 1648) -- Schutz to an unnamed person (early 1648) (Original language: Latin) -- Johann Georg II to Giovanni Sansoni (29 March 1648) (Original language: Italian) -- Geistliche Chor-Music (Dresden, 1648): title page and dedication (21 April 1648) -- Geistliche Chor-Music (Dresden, 1648): preface -- Schutz to the Dresden court (7 July 1648) -- Alexander Hering to the Bautzen town council (30 August 1648) -- Johann Georg Hofkontz to Johann Georg I (16 May 1649) -- Schutz to Burkard Berlich (3 July 1649) -- Schutz to Heinrich von Taube, marshal of the court (between December 1649 and February 1650) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (11 February 1650) -- Symphoniae sacrae III (Dresden, 1650): title page and dedication (29 September 1650) -- Symphoniae sacrae III (Dresden, 1650): preface from the Bassus ad organum partbook -- Symphoniae sacrae III (Dresden, 1650): appendix to the Bassus ad organum partbook -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (14 January 1651) -- Schutz directed to the Dresden court (21 February 1651) -- Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (11 April 1651) -- Schutz and Johann Georg Hofkontz to Christian, Duke of Saxony (14 August 1651) -- Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (19 August 1651) -- Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (4 February 1652) -- Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (28 May 1652) -- Schutz to Heinrich von Taube (26 June 1652) -- Schutz to Heinrich II Reuss (16 June 1653) -- Schutz's endorsement of Caspar Ziegler's Von den Madrigalen (Leipzig, 1653/1685) (11 August 1653) -- Schutz to Heinrich von Taube, Jacob Weller, and Christian Reichbrodt (21 August 1653) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (21 August 1653) -- Schutz to Johann Georg II (21 August 1653) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (21 September 1653) -- Schutz to the Dresden court (undated, probably 1653 or 1654) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (29 May 1655) -- Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg to Schutz (22 June 1655) -- Schutz to Johann Georg I (21 July 1655) -- Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg (24 July 1655) -- Schutz's contract as Kapellmeister in Wolfenbuttel in absentia (23 August 1655) -- Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg to Schutz (10 November 1655) -- Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg (27 November 1655) -- |
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Last years (1657-72). Zwolf geistliche Gesange (Dresden, 1657): title page and Christoph Kittel's preface -- Zwolf geistliche Gesange (Dresden, 1657): first memorandum in the basso continuo partbook -- Zwolf geistliche Gesange (Dresden, 1657): second memorandum in the basso continuo partbook -- Schutz's appraisal of Constantin Christian Dedekind's Aelbianische Musenlust (Dresden, 1657) (21 September 1657) -- Johann Jacob Lowe von Eisenach to Schutz (5 May 1660) -- Schutz to August the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (10 April 1661) -- Becker Psalter, second edition (Dresden, 1661): title page and preface to the reader -- Becker Psalter, second edition (Dresden, 1661): Schutz's remarks in the basso continuo partbook -- Becker Psalter, second edition (Dresden, 1661): Schutz's afterword to organists in the basso continuo partbook -- Schutz's receipt for payment from the Wolfenbuttel court (21 May 1663) -- Schutz to the Zeitz court (14 July 1663) -- Schutz to Moritz, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (29 September 1663) -- Catalog of Schutz's published works sent to Wolfenbuttel (undated, probably September 1663) -- Schutz to August of Brunswick-Luneburg (10 January 1664) -- Historia von der Geburt Jesu Christi (Dresden, 1664): title page and memorandum to the reader -- Schutz directed to Johann Georg II (3 May 1666) -- Schutz to the superintendent at Zeitz (after 1667) -- Schutz to Christoph Bernhard (1670) -- Constantin Christian Dedekind's poem commemorating the completion of Schutz's tomb (2 September 1670) -- Schwanengesang (1671): proposed title page of Schutz's unpublished setting of Psalm 199 -- Schutz's Curriculum vitae written by Martin Geier for the composer's funeral (17 November 1672) -- Christoph Bernhard's rhymed Psalm 150 from the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch (Dresden, 1676) -- Anonymous genealogy of the Schutz family (1761). |
| Abstract |
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. Director of music at the electoral Saxon court in Dresden, he was lauded by his German contemporaries as "the father of our modern music", as "the Orpheus of our time." Yet despite the esteem in which his music is still held today, Schütz himself and the rich cultural environment in which he lived continue to be little known or understood beyond the linguistic borders of his native Germany. Drawing on original manuscript and print sources, A Heinrich Schütz Reader brings the composer to life through more than 150 documents by or about Heinrich Schütz, from his earliest studies under Giovanni Gabrieli to accounts of his final hours. Editor and translator Gregory S. Johnston penetrates the archaic script, confronts the haphazard orthography and obsolete vocabulary, and untangles the knotted grammatical constructions and syntax to produce translations that allow English speakers, as never before, to engage the composer directly. Most of the German, Latin and Italian documents included in this volume appear for the first time in English translation. A number of these texts have not even been printed in their original language. Dedications and prefaces of his printed music, letters and memoranda, poetry and petitions, travel passes and contracts, all offer immediate and unabridged access to the composer's life. To habituate the reader ever more in Schütz's world, the entries are richly annotated with biographical detail; clarifications of professional relationships and ancestral lines; information on geographic regions, domains, cities, courts and institutions; and references to biblical, classical and contemporary literary sources. Johnston opens a door for researchers and scholars across a broad range of disciplines, and at the same time provides an historical complement and literary companion for anyone who has come to appreciate the beauty of Schütz's music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Translated from the German. |
| ISBN | 0190628472 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780190628475 (paperback) |
