A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in Translation

Contents

• Contents
• 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)
• 40. Johann Georg I to Johann Sautor (18.12.1627)
• Middle Age (1628-44)
• 41. Schutz to Georg Pflugk, Marshal of the Palace (early 1628)
• 42. Dresden Court Musicians directed to Johann Georg I (Palm Sunday, 06.04.1628 [Julian Calendar])
• 43. Schutz to Johann Georg I (22.04.1628)
• 44. Schutz to Johann Georg I (10.07.1628)
• 45. Schutz to Georg Pflugk (14.07.1628)
• 46. Schutz to Johann Georg I (03.11.1628)
• 47. Becker Psalter (Freiberg, 1628): title page and dedication to Electress Hedwig, Duchess of Saxony (06.09.1627)
• 48. Becker Psalter (Freiberg, 1628): preface to the reader
• 49. Becker Psalter (Freiberg, 1628): two memoranda to the reader
• 50. Schutz to Johann Georg I (29.06.1629)
• 51. Symphoniae sacrae I (Venice, 1629): title page and dedication to Johann Georg II, Electoral Prince of Saxony (19.08.1629) (Original language: Latin)
• 52. Schutz to Johann Georg I (24.08.1629)
• 53. Excerpt from Philipp Hainhofer's travelogue (27.10.1629)
• 54. Schutz to Georg Pflugk (late 1629)
• 55. Schutz to the Dresden Court (late 1629 or early 1630)
• 56. Schutz to Johann Georg I (22.04.1630)
• 57. Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (mid 1630?)
• 58. Schutz's elegy on the death Johann Hermann Schein (R19.11.1630) (Original language: Latin)
• 59. Schutz to the Dresden Court (presumably 01.1631)
• 60. Schutz to the Dresden Court (presumably 01.1631)
• 61. Schutz to Georg Pflugk (28.02.1631)
• 62. Schutz to Philipp Hainhofer (23.04.1632)
• 63. Schutz to Friedrich Lebzelter (6/16.02.1633)
• 64. Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (09.02.1633)
• 65. Friedrich Lebzelter to Christian (V), Prince-Elect of Denmark (15.02.1633)
• 66. Friedrich Lebzelter to Christian (V), Prince-Elect of Denmark (13.11.1633)
• 67. Memorandum regarding preparations for Schutz's appointment to the Danish Court (late 1633)
• 68. Schutz's entry in Joachim Morsius' Stammbuch (21.01.1634) (Original language: Latin)
• 69. Zacharias Hestius to Johann Georg I (23.04.1634)
• 70. Christian IV, King of Denmark, to Johann Georg I (25.05.1635)
• 71. Danish travel pass issued to Schutz (25.05.1635)
• 72. Musicalische Exequien (Dresden, 1636): title page and dedication
• 73. Musicalische Exequien (Dresden, 1636): elegy on the death of Heinrich Posthumus Reuss
• 74. Musicalische Exequien (Dresden, 1636): memoranda and instructions for performance
• 75. Schutz to Johann Georg I (09.08.1636)
• 76. Schutz to the Dresden Court (after 09.08.1636)
• 77. Kleine Geistliche Konzerte I (Leipzig, 1636): title page and dedication (29.09.1636)
• 78. Schutz directed to Georg Pflugk (01.02.1637)
• 79. Printing patent granted Schutz by Emperor Ferdinand III (03.04.1637)
• 80. Danish travel pass intended for Schutz (16-31.03.1639)
• 81. Kleine Geistliche Konzerte II (Dresden, 1639): title page and dedication to Friedrich III, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (02.06.1639)
• 82. Court Musicians to the Court Privy Councilor (21.10.1640)
• 83. Schutz to Johann Georg I (07.03.1641)
• 84. Schutz to Johann Georg II, Electoral Prince of Saxony (14.09.1641)
• 85. Heinrich Schutz to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (25 April 1642)
• 86. Schutz's second appointment to the Royal Danish Court (03.05.1642)
• 87. Schutz to the Dresden Court (15.07.1642)
• 88. Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg (22.10.1644)
• Old Age (1645-56)
• 89. Schutz to the Wolfenbuttel Court (early 1645)
• 90. Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg (17.03.1645)
• 91. Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (21.05.1645)
• 92. Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (28.09.1645)
• 93. Johann Klemm to Johann Samuel Schein (09.03.1646)
• 94. Schutz to the Dresden Court (24 May 1646)
• 95. Schutz directed to Jacob Weller, Senior Court Chaplain (30.07.1646)
• 96. Schutz to Christian Schirmer (07.09.1646) (Original Language: Latin)
• 97. Heinrich II Reuss to Schutz (22.10.1646)
• 98. Schutz to Martin Knabe (30.10.1646)
• 99. Bautzen Town Council to Schutz (05.03.1647)
• 100. Schutz to the Bautzen Town Council (14.03.1647)
• 101. Bautzen Town Council to Schutz (11.04.1647)
• 102. Schutz to the Bautzen Town Council (28.04.1647)
• 103. Symphoniae sacrae II (Dresden, 1647): title page and dedication (01.05.1647)
• 104. Symphoniae sacrae II (Dresden, 1647): preface to the reader
• 105. Symphoniae sacrae II (1647): appended list of published works to date
• 106. Schutz directed to Johann Georg I (between 20 June and 22 July 1647)
• 107. Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt, Privy Chamber Secretary (21.09.1647)
• 108. Johann Georg II to Johann Georg I (29.09.1647)
• 109. Schutz to August, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (28.12.1647)
• 110. Schutz to Wilhelm IV, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (6 January 1648)
• 111. August of Saxe-Weissenfels to Schutz (18.01.1648)
• 112. Schutz to Unnamed Recipient (early 1648) (Original language: Latin)
• 113. Johann Georg II to Giovanni Sansoni (29.03.1648) (Original Language: Italian)
• 114. Geistliche Chormusik (Dresden, 1648): title page and dedication (21.04.1648)
• 115. Geistliche Chormusik (Dresden, 1648): preface
• 116. Schutz to the Dresden Court (07.07.1648)
• 117. Alexander Hering to the Bautzen Town Council (30.08.1648)
• 118. Johann Georg Hofkontz to Johann Georg I (16.05.1649)
• 119. Heinrich Schutz to Burkard Berlich (03.07.1649)
• 120. Schutz to Heinrich von Taube, Marshal of the Court (between 12.1649 and 02.1650)
• 121. Schutz to the Dresden Court (11.02.1650)
• 122. Symphoniae sacrae III (Dresden, 1650): title page and dedication (29.09.1650)
• 123. Symphoniae sacrae III (Dresden, 1650): preface from the Bassus pro Violone und Bassus ad Organum
• 124. Symphoniae sacrae III (Dresden, 1650): appendix to the Basso Continuo
• 125. Schutz to Johann Georg I (14.01.1651)
• 126. Schutz directed to the Dresden Court (21.02.1651)
• 127. Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (11.04.1651)
• 128. Schutz and Johann Georg Hofkontz to Christian, Duke of Saxony (14.08.1651)
• 129. Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (19.08.1651)
• 130. Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (04.02.1652)
• 131. Schutz to Christian Reichbrodt (28.05.1652)
• 132. Schutz to Heinrich von Taube (26.06.1652)
• 133. Schutz to Heinrich II Reuss (16.06.1653)
• 134. Schutz's endorsement of Caspar Ziegler's Von den Madrigalen (1653/1685) (11.08.1653)
• 135. Schutz to Heinrich von Taube, Jacob Weller and Christian Reichbrodt (21.08.1653)
• 136. Schutz to Johann Georg I (21.08.1653)
• 137. Schutz to Johann Georg II (21.08.1653)
• 138. Schutz to Johann Georg I (21.09.1653)
• 139. Schutz to the Dresden Court (undated, probably 1653 or 1654)
• 140. Schutz Johann Georg I (29.05.1655)
• 141. Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick Luneburg to Schutz (22.06.1655)
• 142. Schutz to Johann Georg I (21.07.1655)
• 143. Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg (24.07.1655)
• 144. Schutz's contract as Kapellmeister in Wolfenbuttel in absentia (23.08.1655)
• 145. Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg to Schutz (10.11.1655)
• 146. Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg (27.11.1655)
• Last Years (1657-72)
• 147. Zwolff Geistliche Gesange (Dresden, 1657): title page and Christoph Kittel's preface
• 148. Zwolff Geistliche Gesange (Dresden, 1657): memorandum Nr. 1 in the Basso Continuo partbook
• 149. Zwolff Geistliche Gesange (Dresden, 1657): memorandum Nr. 2 in the Basso Continuo partbook
• 150. Schutz's appraisal of Constantin Christian Dedekind's Aelbianische Musenlust (Dresden, 1657) (21.09.1657)
• 151. Johann Jacob Lowe von Eisenach to Schutz (5 May 1660)
• 152. Schutz to August the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (10.04.1661)
• 153. Becker Psalter, 2nd edition (Dresden, 1661): title page and preface to the reader
• 154. Becker Psalter, 2nd edition (Dresden, 1661): Schutz's remarks in the Basso Continuo partbook
• 155. Becker Psalter, 2nd edition (Dresden, 1661): Schutz's afterword to organists in the Basso Continuo partbook
• 156. Schutz's receipt for payment from the Wolfenbuttel Court (21.05.1663)
• 157. Heinrich Schutz to the Zeitz Court (14.07.1663)
• 158. Heinrich Schutz to Moritz, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (29.09.1663)
• 159. Catalogue of Schutz's published works sent to Wolfenbuttel (? 09.1663)
• 160. Schutz to August of Brunswick-Luneburg (10.01.1664)
• 161. Historia von der Geburt Jesu Christi (Dresden, 1664): title page and memorandum to the reader
• 162. Schutz directed to Johann Georg II (03.05.1666)
• 163. Schutz to the Superintendent at Zeitz (after 1667)
• 164. Schutz to Christoph Bernhard (1670)
• 165. Constantin Christian Dedekind's poem commemorating the completion of Schutz's tomb (2 September 1670)
• 166. Schwanengesang (1671): proposed title page of Schutz's unpublished setting of Psalm 119
• 167. Schutz's curriculum vitae written by Martin Geier for the composer's funeral (17.11.1672)
• 168. Christoph Bernhard's rhymed Psalm 150 from the Geistreiches Gesang-Buch (Dresden, 1676)
• 169. Genealogy of the Schutz Family (1761)
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index