Heinrich Schütz: Deutsches Magnificat: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren. Gubener Fassung - Sheet music | Carus-Verlag

Heinrich Schütz Deutsches Magnificat: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren. Gubener Fassung

Frühfassung SWV 494a

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The Deutsches Magnificat SWV 494 from the Schwanengesang by Heinrich Schütz is one of the composer’s most popular works. It survives both within the Opus ultimum, but is the only work in the Schwanengesang to also survive separately – in a different version, evidently composed earlier (SWV 494a). The two versions clearly differ, particularly in the final section; Schütz did not compose a new version, but combined the existing musical components in a new and different way. In contrast with the version in the Schwanengesang, the earlier version survives complete and did not have to be reconstructed.

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  • Deutsches Magnificat: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren SWV 494 My soul doth magnify the Lord,
    and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
    For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden:
    for, behold, from henceforth
    all generations shall call me blessed.
    For he that is mighty hath done to me
    great things; and holy is his name.
    He hath shewed strength with his arm;
    he hath scattered the proud
    in the imagination of their hearts.
    He hath put down the mighty from their seats,
    and exalted them of low degree.
    He hath fi lled the hungry with good things;
    and the rich he hath sent empty away.
    He hath helped his servant Israel,
    in remembrance of his mercy;
    as he spake to our fathers,
    to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
    Lk 1:46-55

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  • Deutsches Magnificat: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren SWV 494 Meine Seele erhebt den Herren,
    und mein Geist freuet sich Gottes, meines Heilandes.
    Denn er hat die Niedrigkeit seiner Magd angesehen.
    Siehe, von nun an
    werden mich selig preisen alle Kindeskind,
    denn er hat große Ding an mir getan,
    der da mächtig ist und des Name heilig ist.
    Er übet Gewalt mit seinem Arm
    und zerstreuet, die hoffärtig sind
    in ihres Herzens Sinn.
    Er stößet die Gewaltigen vom Stuhl
    und erhöhet die Niedrigen.
    Die Hungerigen füllet er mit Gütern
    und lässet die Reichen leer.
    Er denket der Barmherzigkeit
    und hilft seinem Diener Israel auf.
    Wie er geredt hat unsern Vätern,
    Abraham und seinem Samen ewiglich.
    Lk 1,46–55

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  • Heinrich Schütz is regarded as the first German musician of European stature. As a choirboy from 1599 at the court of Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel, he received a thorough education. In 1608 he began a law degree in Marburg, but broke this off in 1609 in order, with the support of the Landgrave, to study composition with Giovanni Gabrieli, organist at St Mark’s in Venice. In 1613 Schütz returned to Kassel, but two years later was enticed away by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony to the Dresden court as “Organist und Director der Musica”, where he held the position of Hofkapellmeister (court Kapellmeister) from 1617 until his death. Schütz’s great cycles of vocal works marked the high point of his reputation in Germany and northern Europe. But these represent only part of Schütz’s output; individual works are represented in printed collections with works by other composers, others only survive in manuscript, and much has been lost. The Stuttgart Schütz Edition makes available Schütz’s complete oeuvre, and all works are also published in practical Urtext editions. Personal details

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