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Im frühen 17. Jahrhundert war Italien das Wunderland der Musik, alle neuen Ideen und Anregungen kamen von hier, und wer im Norden – also auch in Deutschland – Komponist war, kam an diesen Neuerungen, so z. B. der „madrigalischen Manier“, nicht vorbei.

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In 1623, when the Thirty Years War was raging, Europe was torn apart by the confrontation between Protestant and Catholic peoples. Schütz and Schein, close friends with a deep-rooted Lutheran faith, were thoroughly in accordance with the spirit of their time when they wrote these works imbued with frugality, humility, even austerity. Yet these two great minds were still driven by a burning passion, paradoxically very attached to Italianate style, which is very evident here.

In 1623, when the Thirty Years War was raging, Europe was torn apart by the confrontation between Protestant and Catholic peoples. Schütz and Schein, close friends with a deep-rooted Lutheran faith, were thoroughly in accordance with the spirit of their time when they wrote these works imbued with frugality, humility, even austerity. Yet these two great minds were still driven by a burning passion, paradoxically very attached to Italianate style, which is very evident here.

June 5th marks the 300th anniversary of Johann Kuhnau’s passing. A missing link between the generations of Buxtehude and Bach, he was a revered figure of his time for his incredible erudition and his musical innovations: he was for instance responsible of the introduction in Germany of the keyboard sonata. Bach, his immediate successor as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, entitled his volumes of the Clavier-Übung as an homage to one of Kuhnau’s works.

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