August Buchner
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August Buchner was a German philologist, poet and literary scholar, an influential professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Wittenberg.
Buchner, engraving by Johann Jacob Haid
Heinrich Schütz
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Heinrich Schütz was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 1
August Buchner
…Eruditionis Scholasticae, a Latin dictionary first printed in 1571. Buchner wrote the libretto for a ballet-opera Orpheus und Euridice with music by Heinrich Schütz, which was performed on 20 November 1638 for a courtly wedding. The musical score of this work has subsequently been lost. The German National Library…
Heinrich Schütz by Christoph Spätner, c. 1660 (Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University)
Heinrich Schütz House, the composer's birthplace in Bad Köstritz, now a museum
Heinrich Schütz House, the composer's home in Weißenfels, now a museum.
Rembrandt: Man with a Sheet of Music, 1633 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2014.136.41; formerly in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, William A. Clark Collection). In Schütz research literature, regarded as inauthentic and not portraying Heinrich Schütz.