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Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe: Geistliche Chor-Music (Gesamtausgabe, Bd. 12) 29 Motetten für 5 bis 7 Stimmen und Generalbass (Paperback-Ausgabe) from 75,00 €

Wed, 13 May 2026 06:34:25 +0200

When it comes to paying tribute to Heinrich Schütz’s compositional achievement, in his art his treatment of the text and language must be mentioned first. The "Geistliche Chor-Music 1648", a collection of 29 motets for five to seven voices and one of his most important works, is characterized by the carefully thought-out musical realization of the meaning of the text. In his detailed foreword to the collection the composer presented these as models for composition without a basso continuo – it was his conviction that every young composer should obtain “the proper foundation for a good counterpoint.” Despite the strict counterpoint, stylistically speaking from an earlier era, the “Musicus poeticus” imbued his works with a strongly expressive character. The individual motets are structured differently and they differ - according to content - in their length and character.In addition to the clothbound edition of the Stuttgart Schütz Edition (Carus 20.912) the volume is now also available in a paperback edition. Separate editions available.

Account of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from 112,00 €

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:36:09 +0100

Opus 3 for six to eight voices with figured bass.

Cantiones sacrae (Schütz Complete Edition, vol. 5) Stuttgart Schütz Edition from 249,00 €

Wed, 13 May 2026 06:34:25 +0200

Today the Cantiones sacrae (1625) remain in the shadow of Schütz’s much more well known motet collection, the Geistliche Chor-music of 1648. This is due on the one hand to their Latin texts and to the devotional texts which often are not taken from the Bible, and on the other hand to the highly expressive style of the Cantiones. Schütz demands that the singers be open to a highly unusual music rich with dissonances. The reward for this venture will be an extraordinary depth and expressiveness and music truly beyond compare.

Geistliche Chor-Music 1648 (Complete Edition, vol. 12) Stuttgart Schütz Edition from 294,00 €

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:36:09 +0100

When it comes to paying tribute to Heinrich Schütz’s compositional achievement, in his art his treatment of the text and language must be mentioned first. The "Geistliche Chor-Music 1648", a collection of 29 motets for five to seven voices and one of his most important works, is characterized by he carefully thought-out musical realization of the meaning of the text. In his detailed foreword to the collection the composer presented these as models for composition without a basso continuo – it was his conviction that very young composer should obtain “the properfoundation for a good counterpoint.” Despite the strict counterpoint, stylistically speaking from an earlier era, the “Musicus poeticus” imbued his works with a strongly expressive character. The individual motets are structured differently and they differ - according to content - in their length and character. Short, rather straightforward pieces stand alongside long, worked-out pieces with greater expressive intensity, and cheerful, optimistic works are juxtaposed with plaintive ones. Separate editions available.

Kleine geistliche Konzerte II. 31 geistliche Konzerte für 1-5 Singstimmen und Bc (Complete edition, vol. 10) Stuttgart Schütz Edition from 255,00 €

Wed, 13 May 2026 06:34:25 +0200

The Kleine geistliche Konzerte by Heinrich Schütz represent solo vocal music right at the height of its time, the result of his (second) journey to Italy and his encounter with Claudio Monteverdi’s musico-dramatic works. Part I of the Kleine Geistliche Konzerte, published in 1636, can already by seen as a pattern book of compositions, and based on their structure Schütz was then able to set more extensive pieces. This applies even more impressively to the second book because of its often daring harmonies and more intensive declamation; the book was issued in 1639 and is now newly published in the Stuttgart Schütz Edition in the original keys and with the original order of pieces newly recreated according to the ﬁrst printed edition.

Opera varia I. Works with 1–7 parts (Complete edition, vol. 19) Stuttgart Schütz Edition 322,00 €

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:27:57 +0200

Volume 19 of the Schütz Complete Edition brings together 21 very different compositions from various phases of Schütz’s compositional output. The spectrum ranges from a short, two-part sacred concerto to a six-part cyclical psalm setting and large-scale polychoral concerto, from well-known works such as the “Osterdialog” to a completely unknown madrigalian composition, full of emotion, to a simple chorale setting. A particular challenge was posed by the ten works or versions of works which survive incomplete. Two of these, the Christmas concerto “Ach Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding” SWV 450a and “Ein Kind ist uns geboren” SWV 497, appear here for the first time in print. With both of these it turned out that it was possible to reconstruct the missing parts fully from available material. For the “Ultima Verba Psalmi 23”, “Gutes und Barmherzigkeit” SWV 95 and the two “Nunc dimittis: Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener” SWV 432 and 433, the editor’s reconstructions are presented, and likewise with the chorale movement “In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr” SWV 446. The impressive Easter dialog “Weib, was weinest du” SWV 443 is one of the works which survives incomplete. In order to give an impression of how the whole work might actually have sounded in the complete form as planned by Schütz, the Appendix to the volume contains a reconstruction of the four-part vocal setting of the missing final chorus, based on the surviving figured bass. The magnificent “Gesang der drei Männer im feurigen Ofen” (Song of the three men in the burning fiery furnace) SWV 448 from the book of the prophet Daniel, the original source of which is lost, is critically discussed and published with various possibilities for scoring.

Psalm 119 (Schwanengesang), (Complete edition, vol. 18) Stuttgart Schütz Edition from 268,00 €

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:45:11 +0200

At the age of eighty-six Heinrich Schütz composed his last work in 1671 with his monumental setting of Psalm 119, complemented in an appendix with a setting of Psalm 100, and a setting of a German Magnificat. This group of works, called "Schwanengesang" [Swansong], is scored for eight vocal parts, but two were lost so that it is not performable in its surviving form. However, as the composition is in a strictly regular style, and the two choirs often have common motivic material, it has been possible to attempt a reconstruction of the missing material from what survives. In 1984 a version reconstructed by the Dresden Schütz scholar Wolfram Steude was published for the first time, and has been performed many times since then. The new edition by Werner Breig as part of the Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe is another attempt to create a performable version. In the process, other reconstruction options have been suggested for many passages, and in addition to this, some previously undiscovered mistakes have been corrected.

Stuttgart Schütz Edition from 94,00 €

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:32:31 +0100

Opus 7 funeral music in three parts for six, eight or more voices with figured bass.

Stuttgart Schütz Edition from 142,00 €

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:06:55 +0200

Il Primo Libro de Madrigali op. 1 (1611), SWV 1-19. 18 madrigals, mostly SSATB or SATTB.
The scores are also available as single editions (CV 20.001/00 - CV 20.019/00).

Thanks to a stipend from his patron, the Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel, Schütz was able to pursue a three-year period of study under Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice from 1609 to 1612, which he concluded with the publication in 1611 of the madrigal collection Il Primo Libro de Madrigali. Already in this, his Opus primus, Schütz emerged as an outstanding composer: In their musical quality, the 18 five-part madrigals exceed much that was still being composed in the traditional madrigal style at the beginnning of the 17th century.

Stuttgart Schütz Edition 273,00 €

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:28:05 +0100

Opus 6 twenty sacred choral concertos for three to six voices, with accompaniment and figured bass.

Separate editions are available.

Symphoniae sacrae II (Stuttgart Schütz Edition, vol. 11) Stuttgart Schütz Edition 273,00 €

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:35:49 +0100

The 27 concerti of the Symphoniae sacra II are milestones in the development of the German-language sacred concerto for virtuoso solo singers, instruments (mostly violins) and basso continuo. Published one year before what became, by far, the more well-known Geistliche Chormusik of 1648, they show another artistic side of Schütz, alongside the traditional, vocal polyphony scored for larger ensembles. In the Stuttgart Schütz Edition the works are now presented for the first time ever in an edition based on a comprehensive new investigation of the sources which does justice to the differentiated source situation and at the same time is oriented toward musical practice. The edition includes detailed explanatory texts.