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Schütz (Master Musicians) [Hardcover]

Basil Smallman (Author)

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Publication Date: 16 Mar 2000 | Series: Master Musician
Now regarded as one of the greatest composers in early musical history, Heinrich Schutz cultivated all the principal forms of Lutheran sacred music, serving as Kapellmeister to the electoral court at Dresden from 1615 to his death in 1672. Since, however, his work is so intensely bound up with the German biblical language, the full magnitude of his achievement has only gradually been recognized outside his native country. Here Basil Smallman brings the composer and his work vividly alive for the non-German reader. His principal works are examined in chronological order, with interspersed biographical chapters covering his years in Italy and Denmark, his relationships with leading musicians and patrons, the hardships of the Thirty Years War, and the machinations of court life. One of the greatest creative figures of his time, Schutz emerges as a giant amongst his lesser contemporaries. This book will bring him and his work to a new and international audience.

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"Oxford has produced another winning entry in The Master Musicians series ... Smallman's narrative weaves discussion of life and works seamlessly, and the extras (calendar, list of works, personalia, bibliography) have been executed superbly." -- B.J. Murray, Choice

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Basil Smallman was Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool from 1965 to 1985. On his retirement he was created Emeritus Professor.
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Inscribed in 1672 on the composer's memorial tablet in the old Frauenkirche in Dresden (now lost through rebuilding), the Latin phrase 'Heinricus Schutzius Seculi sui Musicus excellentissimus' (Heinrich Schutz the most excellent musician of his age), grandly epitomizes the honour in which the composer was held in Lutheran Germany throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, and which has since been echoed, at first faintly, and then ever more robustly and more widely over the centuries to the present day. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A long-overdue study in English 13 July 2003
By Andrew O'Connor - Published on Amazon.com
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I haven't really much to add to the synopsis above, which sums up the book's strengths very well. Schütz is undoubtedly Germany's greatest composer before Bach (though I suppose Buxtehude comes close) and Smallman's scholarly biography is the first in English for quite some time. It is comprehensive, elegantly written and belongs on the shelf of anyone who loves 17th century music.

I must note in concluding that Smallman appears to have done much of his research through the Devon County Library in England. What a fine tribute to the public library system!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent musical biography 4 Jan 2007
By klavierspiel - Published on Amazon.com
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Heinrich Schütz is arguably the greatest German composer before Bach, but to most concertgoers today he is not much more than a name in musical history books. Basil Smallman, with whom I had a nodding acquaintance previously as the author of two good guidebooks on the piano trio and piano quartet/quintet, has penned an exemplary biography of this seminal figure in Western musical history. He recounts the events of Schütz's surprisingly long life (he died at the age of eighty-seven) with as much detail as is historically possible, alternating biographical data with analytical chapters on the composer's most important collections of sacred music. Schütz brought the genre of the sacred concerto, devotional music for combined voices and instruments, to its peak in seventeenth-century Germany, taking what he had learned from his principal teacher, the great Italian master Giovanni Gabrieli, and adapting the Italian model to the needs of the court where he was Kapellmeister for many years. Smallman's prose is a model of clarity and concision without sacrificing comprehensiveness. He deserves much gratitude for making available a study of such quality of this composer in English.
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