Heinrich Schütz und andere zeitgenössische Musiker in der Lehre Giovanni Gabrielis
Studien zu ihren Madrigalen
-
Author
Siegfried Schmalzriedt
| 1941-2008
-
Editor
Georg von Dadelsen
| 1918-2007
-
Subject (book)
Giovanni Gabrieli
| 1554-1612Year of birth uncertain: 1554 or 1557 in Venice, died there in 1612.
Giovanni Gabrieli was one of the most influential musicians of the Venetian School in the 16th century. He was a church musician at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, where Monteverdi became his successor after his death. One of Gabrieli's most important pupils was Heinrich Schütz, who learnt from Gabrieli during a three-year journey to Italy.
Gabrieli's style is characterised by Venetian polychoralism, basso continuo and affectation; he also wrote madrigals. His polychoral motets are written for up to 16 voices and 15 instruments and bear witness to the splendour of sound that must have prevailed in St. Mark's Basilica at the time. His Symphoniae Sacrae I and II and the many canzoni are well known. Gabrieli mainly wrote sacred choral music.
Personal details
-
Subject (book)
Heinrich Schütz
| 1585-1672Heinrich 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
Reviews on our website can only be submitted by customers with a registered user account. A check whether the rated products were actually purchased does not take place.
Frequent questions about this work
There are no questions and answers available so far or you were unable to find an answer to your specific question about this work? Then click here and send your specific questions to our Customer Services!
