A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation

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Acknowledgements
Bibliographical abbreviations
Illustrations
Youth and Early Manhood (1611-27)
1. Il primo libro de madrigali (Venice, 1611) (Original language: Italian)
2. Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony, to Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (27.08.1614)
3. Johann Georg I to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (25.04.1615)
4. Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Johann Georg I (27.04.1615)
5. Schutz to Christoph von Loss, Privy Councillor and Marshal of the Court (23.09.1616)
Johann Georg I's reply (30.09.1616)
6. Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Johann Georg I (01.12.1616)
7. Christoph von Loss to Johann Georg I (11.12.1616)
8. Johann Georg I to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (13.12.1616)
9. Schutz to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (16.12.1616)
10. Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Heinrich Schutz (23.12.1616)
11. Dresden Court to Schutz (07.1617)
12. Schutz to Heinrich Posthumus Reuss (09.12.1617)
13. Schutz to Johann Georg I (15.04.1618)
14. Moritz of Hesse-Kassel to Johann Georg I (11.01.1619)
15. Johann Georg I to Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (25.01.1619)
16. Psalmen Davids (Dresden, 1619): title page and dedication (01.06.1619)
17. Psalmen Davids (Dresden, 1619): title page of the Basso Continuo and preface (01.06.1619)
18. Schutz to the City Council of Frankfurt am Main (17.07.1619)
19. Schutz's poem on the occasion of Georg Schutz's wedding (09.08.1619)
20. Schutz to Ludwig Wilhelm Moser, Court Chamber Secretary (03.07.1621)
21. Schutz's text to Syncharma musicum (03.11.1621) (Original language: Latin)
22. Schutz's text to Teutoniam dudum belli (03.11.1621) (Original language: Latin)
23. Historia der Auferstehung (Dresden, 1623): title page and preface (25.03.1623)
24. Schutz to Wilhelm Ludwig Moser (25.05.1624)
25. Schutz to Wilhelm Ludwig Moser (30.12.1624)
26. Cantiones sacrae (Freiberg, 1625): title page and dedication (01.01.1625) (Original language: Latin)
27. Cantiones sacrae (Freiberg, 1625): foreword to the reader (Original language: Latin)
28. Schutz to the attention of Johann Georg I (before 17.03.1625)
29. Schutz to Johann Georg I (28.03.1625)
30. Dresden Court Musicians to Johann Georg I (11.06.1625)
31. Schutz to Johann Georg I (22.09.1626)
32. Schutz to Johann Georg I (09.05.1627)
33. Schutz to the Dresden Court (after 26.05.1627)
34. Schutz to Johann Georg I (02.08.1627)
35. Schutz to the Dresden Court (?09.1627)
36. Da pacem, Domine for the Electoral Assembly in Muhlhausen (04.10 to 05.11.1627): dedication and performance instructions (Original language: Latin and German)
37. Schutz to an Unnamed Person (October/November, 1627)
38. Johann Georg I to Johann Sautor, Court Chamberlain (15.11.1627)
39. Johann Sautor to Johann Georg I (11.12.1627)

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Heinrich Schütz (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, Schütz himself and the rich cultural environment in which he lived continue to be little known or understood beyond the linguistic borders of his native Germany. Drawing on original manuscript and print sources, A Heinrich Schütz Reader brings the composer to life through more than 150 documents by or about Heinrich Schütz, from his earliest studies under Giovanni Gabrieli to accounts of his final hours. Editor and translator Gregory S. Johnston penetrates the archaic script, confronts the haphazard orthography and obsolete vocabulary, and untangles the knotted grammatical constructions and syntax to produce translations that allow English speakers, as never before, to engage the composer directly. Most of the German, Latin and Italian documents included in this volume appear for the first time in English translation. A number of these texts have not even been printed in their original language. Dedications and prefaces of his printed music, letters and memoranda, poetry and petitions, travel passes and contracts, all offer immediate and unabridged access to the composer's life. To habituate the reader ever more in Schütz's world, the entries are richly annotated with biographical detail; clarifications of professional relationships and ancestral lines; information on geographic regions, domains, cities, courts and institutions; and references to biblical, classical and contemporary literary sources. Johnston opens a door for researchers and scholars across a broad range of disciplines, and at the same time provides an historical complement and literary companion for anyone who has come to appreciate the beauty of Schütz's music.

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