(Yän Pe’-ter-sun Sva’-lingk) 1562–1621 Netherlandish composer Sweelinck was a composer, organist and teacher, numbering Scheidt among his pupils. He was enormously influential in the development of north and mid-German organ music, later prompting the most important writer on music of the German Baroque, Johann Mattheson (1681– 1764), to describe him as the ‘creator of Hamburg organists’. He worked ...
careful word-painting. Recommended Recording: Arias and Cantatas, op. 8, Emanuela Galli, La Risonanza (dir) Fabio Bonizzoni (Glossa) Introduction | Early Baroque | Classical Personalities | Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck | Early Baroque | Classical ...
(Za’-moo-el Shidt) 1587–1654 German composer Scheidt – a pupil of Sweelinck, organist, composer and himself a teacher – served as Kapellmeister to the Halle court from 1619. He published seven collections of sacred music: the earliest, Cantiones sacrae (‘Holy Songs’, 1620), contains eight-voice polychoral motets. One calls for instrumental doubling of parts; the musical style blends Italian and Netherlandish ...
of oratorios in English, most notably George Frideric Handel. ‘Have faith that the modern composer builds on foundations of truth.’ Claudio Monteverdi Leading Exponents Giulio Caccini Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Claudio Monteverdi Girolamo Frescobaldi Heinrich Schütz Samuel Scheidt Giacomo Carissimi Louis Couperin Jean-Baptiste Lully Henry Purcell Early Baroque Style Baroque music is characterized by the addition of a definite bass ...
often including virtuoso runs and brilliant contrapuntal passages. Among the best examples are pieces by Francesco Canova da Milano (1497–1543), Bálint Bakfark (1507–76) and Dowland for lute, and by Sweelinck, Byrd and Gibbons for keyboard. The lute or keyboard ricercare was a similar composition, often characterized by imitative or fugal writing. Sometimes it functioned as a sort of ...
unusually wide-ranging collection of nearly 300 keyboard pieces by English composers (many of them also known for their Catholic sympathies), including Tallis, Byrd and Bull. Continental musicians such as Sweelinck are also represented and there are arrangements of madrigals by Italian composers. Earlier manuscripts of keyboard music include the Buxheimer Orgelbuch, an important source of over 250 German organ ...
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