Heinrich Sch�tz (1585-1672) is now regarded as one of the greatest composers and creative figures in early music history. In this first full-length introduction for the general reader, biographical chapters alternate with a chronological account of his principal works.
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`Oxford has produced another winning entry in The Master Musicians series ... Smallman's narrative weaves discussion of life and works seamlessly, and the extras (calendar, list of works, personalia, bibliography) have been executed superbly.' B.J.Murray, Choice, Vol. 38, No. 3, February 2001
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Basil Smallman was Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool from 1965 to 1985. On his retirement he was created Emeritus Professor.
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I haven't really much to add to the synopsis above, which sums up the book's strengths very well. Schütz is undoubtedly Germany's greatest composer before Bach (though I suppose Buxtehude comes close) and Smallman's scholarly biography is the first in English for quite some time. It is comprehensive, elegantly written and belongs on the shelf of anyone who loves 17th century music.I must note in concluding that Smallman appears to have done much of his research through the Devon County Library in England. What a fine tribute to the public library system!
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Heinrich Schütz is arguably the greatest German composer before Bach, but to most concertgoers today he is not much more than a name in musical history books. Basil Smallman, with whom I had a nodding acquaintance previously as the author of two good guidebooks on the piano trio and piano quartet/quintet, has penned an exemplary biography of this seminal figure in Western musical history. He recounts the events of Schütz's surprisingly long life (he died at the age of eighty-seven) with as much detail as is historically possible, alternating biographical data with analytical chapters on the composer's most important collections of sacred music. Schütz brought the genre of the sacred concerto, devotional music for combined voices and instruments, to its peak in seventeenth-century Germany, taking what he had learned from his principal teacher, the great Italian master Giovanni Gabrieli, and adapting the Italian model to the needs of the court where he was Kapellmeister for many years. Smallman's prose is a model of clarity and concision without sacrificing comprehensiveness. He deserves much gratitude for making available a study of such quality of this composer in English.
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Inscribed in 1672 on the composer's memorial tablet in the old Frauenkirche in Dresden (now lost through rebuilding), the Latin phrase 'Heinricus Schutzius Seculi sui Musicus excellentissimus' (Heinrich Schutz the most excellent musician of his age), grandly epitomizes the honour in which the composer was held in Lutheran Germany throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, and which has since been echoed, at first faintly, and then ever more robustly and more widely over the centuries to the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opening symphonia, senior court preacher, chorale stanzas, ich nur dich habe, chorale texts, monodic style, imitative writing, obbligato instruments, continuo line, court diaries, continuo part, psalm settings, two sopranos, two tenors, cor meum, full ensemble Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Georg, Heinrich Schutz, Christmas History, Duo Cantus, Geistliche Chor-Music, Psalmen Davids, Becker Psalter, Dresden Kapelle, Duke August, German Magnificat, Landgrave Moritz, Mary Magdalene, Resurrection History, Thirty Years War, German Nunc, Matthias Weckmann, Michael Praetorius, Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, Bernard of Clairvaux, Christoph Bernhard, Georg Otto, Giovanni Gabrieli, Good Friday, Lord Jesus New!
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Inscribed in 1672 on the composer's memorial tablet in the old Frauenkirche in Dresden (now lost through rebuilding), the Latin phrase 'Heinricus Schutzius Seculi sui Musicus excellentissimus' (Heinrich Schutz the most excellent musician of his age), grandly epitomizes the honour in which the composer was held in Lutheran Germany throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, and which has since been echoed, at first faintly, and then ever more robustly and more widely over the centuries to the present day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
opening symphonia, senior court preacher, chorale stanzas, ich nur dich habe, chorale texts, monodic style, imitative writing, obbligato instruments, continuo line, court diaries, continuo part, psalm settings, two sopranos, two tenors, cor meum, full ensemble Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Johann Georg, Heinrich Schutz, Christmas History, Duo Cantus, Geistliche Chor-Music, Psalmen Davids, Becker Psalter, Dresden Kapelle, Duke August, German Magnificat, Landgrave Moritz, Mary Magdalene, Resurrection History, Thirty Years War, German Nunc, Matthias Weckmann, Michael Praetorius, Song of Solomon, Song of Songs, Bernard of Clairvaux, Christoph Bernhard, Georg Otto, Giovanni Gabrieli, Good Friday, Lord Jesus New!
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- Musikalische Exequien (Neue Ausgabe Samtlicher Werke/Heinrich Schutz, Bd 4) by Heinrich Schutz on page 87, and Back Matter
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 185, and Back Matter
- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) by Ralph Kirkpatrick on page 185
- Song of Solomon by of Clairvaux, Saint Bernard on page 51
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