(Yo-han Hâr’-man Shin) 1586–1630 German composer Schein trained at Dresden, Naumburg and Leipzig and finally took charge of the music at St Thomas’s, Leipzig, in 1616. His first vocal music collection, Cymbalum Sionium (1615), brings together settings of Latin and German texts in a variety of styles. A more modern outlook, embracing the Italian idiom and demonstrating ...
large-scale pieces by the difficult economic conditions caused by the Thirty Years’ War. He suffered much personal sadness, including the deaths of his wife in 1625, his friend Schein in 1630 and his two brothers (1638 and 1655). Venice and Dresden Schütz paid a second visit to Venice in 1628, following the production of his opera Dafne (now ...
an imaginative keyboard composer. Recommended Recording: Great Sacred Concertos, La Capella Ducale, Musica Fiata (dir) Roland Wilson (CPO) Introduction | Early Baroque | Classical Personalities | Johann Hermann Schein | Early Baroque | Classical ...
Lutheran Germany. His choral motets (such as the Geistliche Chor-Music, 1648) are notable for using the musical contrasts and responsiveness to the text characteristic of madrigal composition. Schütz and Schein were also influenced by the antiphonal style of Venetians such as Giovanni Gabrieli. Yet these large-scale works were beyond the performing capabilities of many groups; much more suitable were the ...
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