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Heinrich Schütz

Type Figure Region Saxony Time 1585–1672 Also known as Heinrich Schütz、Heinrich Schuetz、Schütz

Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) was one of the most important composers of the German Baroque and a master of Lutheran church music, long-serving as cour…

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  1. 1585–1590Köstritz · SaxonySchütz was born in 1585 in Köstritz in the Saxon Electorate, his father serving as a manor steward. He showed musical talent from childhood and received basic musical education locally; at this time Saxony was under Elector Augustus's promotion of Lutheran orthodoxy, with a strong religious musical environment.
  2. 1589–1590Kassel · HesseAround 1589–1590, Schütz obtained the patronage of Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse, entering the Kassel court as a boy soprano and receiving systematic training under the court Kapellmeister. This experience laid the foundation for his later studies in Venice and his becoming the first great Baroque master in Germany.

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