People from Wartburgkreis - Michael Praetorius, Mendel Hess, Karl Friedrich Heusinger, Bruno Hassenstein (Paperback)

Chapters: Michael Praetorius, Mendel Hess, Karl Friedrich Heusinger, Bruno Hassenstein. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Praetorius (Creuzburg, probably February 15, 1571 Wolfenb ttel, February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer about music. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns. He was born Michael Schultze, the youngest son of a Lutheran pastor, in Creuzburg, Thuringia. After attending school in Torgau and Zerbst, he studied divinity and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt (Oder). After receiving his musical education, from 1587 he served as organist at the Marienkirche in Frankfurt. From 1592/3 he served at the court in Wolfenb ttel, under the employ of Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-L neburg. He served in the duke's State Orchestra Brunswick first as organist and later (from 1604) as Kapellmeister. His first compositions appeared around 1602/3. Praetorius had started writing some of them when Regensburg was the parliamentary seat of the Holy Roman Empire. Their publication primarily reflects the care for music at the court of Gr ningen. The motets of this collection were the first in Germany to make use of the new Italian performance practices; as a result, they established him as a proficient composer. These "modern" pieces mark the end of his middle creative period. The nine parts of his Musae Sioniae (1605-10) as well as the 1611 published collections of liturgical music (masses, hymns, magnificats) follow the German Protestant chorale style. With these, at the behest of a circle of orthodox Lutherans, he followed around the Duchess Elizabeth, who ruled the duchy in the duke's absence. In place of...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=49522