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
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.
Dafne (Opitz-Schütz)
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Die Dafne is an opera. Its libretto was written by Martin Opitz and its music was composed by Heinrich Schütz. It has traditionally been regarded as the first German opera, though it has also been pro
Heinrich Schütz
…was written for the Lutheran church, primarily for the Electoral Chapel in Dresden. He wrote what is traditionally considered the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost, along with nearly all of his ceremonial and theatrical scores. Schütz was a…
Daphne Chased by Apollo, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1744