On 28 September 1662 the rebuilt Dresden Schlosskapelle was consecrated. For this exceptional occasion, Heinrich Schütz, now the "oldest Kapellmeister" of the Dresden court and living in retirement, created an outstanding work in which he presented virtually a summation of his compositional skill with a complete setting of Psalm 100 for double choir. In the outer sections of the intonation and doxology, Schütz drew on the traditional psalm tones from liturgical monody, but in between he unfolded a highly imaginative, almost kaleidoscope-like sequence of musical images. The survival of this work is thanks to the fact Schütz included it as an appendix in his monumental major work of his maturity, his setting of Psalm 119 ("Schwanengesang," or swansong). In this edition the editor Werner Breig has added the two missing parts.
- ISMN: 9790007187897 (M007187897)
