It is hard to believe that among the creative output of Heinrich Schütz there are still new works to be discovered. And yet here, for the first time, a short piece of Christmas music, barely 70 measures long is being published within the framework of the Stuttgart Schütz Edition The work is entitled Ein Kind ist uns geboren SWV 497; it is scored for two tenor voices and organ. The edition is based on an incomplete copy of the piece which is contained in a manuscript collection. In the course of preparing the work for publication, the missing upper voice could be for the most part reliably reconstructed by employing melodic material derived from the parts which already exist. Thus, after centuries of long hibernation, this piece of music by the Hofkapellmeister to the Elector of Saxony can once again be brought to life.
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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
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Editor
Helmut Lauterwasser
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Ein kleines feines Werk für die Weihnachtszeit.
Singende Kirche 04/2015
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