Heinrich Schütz: German Master

Heinrich Schütz

A leading German composer and organist of the 17th century. Active mainly in Dresden as the court Kapellmeister for the Elector of Saxony, he integrated the musical techniques he studied under Giovanni Gabrieli in Italy into German Lutheran church music. A crucial figure who drove the transition from Renaissance music to early Baroque music, he is considered one of the most prominent German composers prior to Johann Sebastian Bach. More than 500 of his works survive today, and including lost compositions, he wrote a vast amount of sacred and secular music. He also composed *Dafne*, considered to be one of the earliest German operas, though the score has not survived.

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Year	Heinrich Schütz
1585	Birth of Heinrich Schütz (Period: October 8, 1585 (baptized October 9), Location: Bad Köstritz (present-day Thuringia, Germany))
1598	Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel's Discovery of Talent (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 12 years old, Period: 1598, Location: Weissenfels (present-day Germany))
1599	Education at the Kassel Court School (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 13 years old, Period: c. 1599–1608, Location: Kassel (present-day Hesse, Germany))
1608	Legal Studies in Marburg (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 22 years old, Period: c. 1608, Location: Marburg (present-day Hesse, Germany))
1609	Music Studies with Giovanni Gabrieli (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1609–1612, Location: Venice (present-day Italy))
1613	Appointment as Kassel Court Organist (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 27 years old, Period: 1613–1615, Location: Kassel (present-day Germany))
1615	Transfer to the Dresden Court (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1615, Location: Dresden (present-day Saxony, Germany))
1617	Appointment as Kapellmeister of the Electorate of Saxony Court (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 31 years old, Period: 1617–1619, Location: Dresden (present-day Germany))
1618	Thirty Years' War (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1618–1648, Location: Central Europe centered on regions of the Holy Roman Empire, Low Countries, etc.)
1619	Publication of Psalmen Davids (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1619, Location: Dresden) Marriage (Heinrich Schütz, Magdalena Wildeck, Age: 33 years old, Period: June 1, 1619, Location: Dresden (present-day Saxony, Germany))
1627	Performance of Dafne (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1627, Location: Torgau (present-day Saxony, Germany))
1628	Second Stay in Venice (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 42 years old, Period: 1628–1629, Location: Venice (present-day Italy))
1630	Decline of Dresden Court Music Activities Due to the Thirty Years' War (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1630s–1640s, Location: Dresden (present-day Germany))
1633	Activities at the Copenhagen Court (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 47 years old, Period: 1633–1635, c. 1641, Location: Copenhagen (present-day Denmark))
1643	Torstenson War (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1643–1645, Location: Denmark, Northern Germany, Jutland Peninsula, etc.)
1648	End of the Thirty Years' War (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1648, Location: German Lands and Westphalia) Publication of Geistliche Chormusik (Age: 62 years old, Period: 1648, Location: Dresden)
1655	Appointment as Kapellmeister of the Wolfenbüttel Court (Heinrich Schütz, Age: 69 years old, Period: 1655, Location: Wolfenbüttel (present-day Lower Saxony, Germany))
1672	Death of Heinrich Schütz (Age: 87 years old, Period: November 6, 1672)
Unknown	Relocation to Weissenfels in Later Years (Heinrich Schütz, Period: Late 17th Century, Location: Weissenfels (present-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany))

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