A Heinrich Schütz Reader

by Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Sch?tz (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, Sch?tz himself and the rich cultural environment in which he lived continue to be little known or understood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199812209
• ISBN13: 9780199812202
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"