About the Book
A superb and invaluable study of Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz - a central figure in Baroque music. Includes all known letters and papers pertaining to the second half of Schütz's life, many of which have never before appearedin print, in addition to music examples, illustrations and several primary documents in facsimile, all in both German and English translation.
Spagnoli documents every aspect of Schütz's career, beginning at Dresden wherehe served as Kapellmeister from c.1617 until his death in 1672; his relationship to the court at Wolfenbüttel; his efforts to establish a court ensemble at Zeitz; and the musical environment in which he worked. Spagnoli's research goes beyond critical commentary on Schütz's music to give the reader a fascinating portrayal of the social and cultural mileu of Europe's major courts during the mid-seventeenth century. There is a foreward by Werner Breig.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Commentary: Dresden; Wolfenbuttel; Zeitz; duties of the court musician in Schutz's sphere; conclusion; appendix - Dresden court ensemble lists from 1662, 1680 and 1717. Part 2 Documents: list of commonly used 17th century German abbreviations; Schuetz to Christian Reichbrodt - Dresden, 21 September 1647; Schutz to Johann Georg. I Dresden, 14 January 1651; Schutz to Heirich Taube, Jacob Weller, and Christian Reichbrodt, Dresden, 21 August 1653; Schuetz to Johann Georg. II, 23 August 1653; Johann Georg II to Johann Georg. I 30 September 1653; Schuetz to the Chamberlain, Dresden 19 June 1654; Johann Georg Hofkontz and Christoph Kittel to Jacob Weller, Dresden, 30 November 1654, Jacob Weller to Johann Georg I Dresden, 3 December 1654; Vincenzo Albrici's contract as Kapellmeister, undated; Christoph Bernhard's contract as alto, Dresden, 1 August 1649; Christoph Bernhard's contract as Vice-Kapellmeister, Heinrich Taube to Johann Georg I, Dresden, 1 August 1655; Schuetz's prefatory letter to Constantin Christian Dedekind's aelbianische Musenlust, Weissenfels, 21 September 1657; Schuetz's travel pass from Johann Georg II Frankfurt am Main , 8 April 1658; Johann Georg II's chapel order, undated; Johann Georg II to the President and advisors of the privy chamber of Dresden, Dresden, 27 March 1663; Schuetz to Johann Georg II, Dresden, 1 May 1666; Schuetz to Johann Georg II, Dresden, 3 May 1666; Schuetz to an unnamed patron, undated; Dresden instrument chamber catalog, 1681; Schuetz to Sophie Elisabeth, Brunswick, 22 October 1644; Schutz to Sophie Elisabeth, Brunswick, 17 March 1645; Schuetz to the Wolfenbuttel Court, undated; Schuetz's poem "Der Musen Glukwunschung", 1650; Sophie Elisabeth to Schuetz, Wolfenbuttel, 22 June 1655; Johann Jacob Lowe von Eisenach's contract as Kapellmeister, Wolfenbuttel, 24 June 1655; Schuetz to Sophie Elisabeth, Dresden, 24 July 1655; Schuetz's contract as Kapellmeister in absentia, Wolfenbuttel, 23 August 1655; Sophie Elisabeth to Schuetz, Wolfenbuttel, 10 November 1655; Schuetz to Sophie Elisabeth, Dresden, 27 November 1655; Sophie Elisabeth to Schuetz, Wolfenbuttel, 2 January 1656; Schuetz's autograph receipt, Dresden, Michaelmas 1656; Schuetz's autograph receipt, Michaelmas, 1658, statement of Schuetz's wages, Wolfenbuttel, 1 May 1660; Johann Jacob Lowe von Eisenach to Schuetz, Wolfenbuttel, 5 May 1660; statement of Schuetz wages, Wolfenbuttel, 5 June 1660; Schuetz to Duke August, Dresden, 10 April 1661; Schuetz's autograph receipt, Teplitz, 21 May 1663; statement of Schuetz's wages, 3 October 1663; Schuetz to Duke August, Leipzig, 10 January 1664; catalog of Schuetz's published works, undated; statement of Schuetz's published works, undated; statement of Schuetz's wages, 28 April 1665; Schuetz to Duke Moritz, Dresden, 14 July 1663; Duke Moritz to Schuetz, undated; Schuetz to Duke Moritz, Dresden, Michaelmas 1663.
