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.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral Brandenburg
1748 portrait of Bach holding a copy of the canon BWV 1076
Johann Ambrosius Bach, 1685, Bach's father. Painting attributed to Johann David Herlicius [de]
Current version of the Wender organ in the Bach Church, Arnstadt.
Organ of the St Paul's Church in Leipzig, tested by Bach in 1717