A psalm concerto by Heinrich Schütz for solo voices, choir, 2 violins, 3 trombones, and basso continuo which is too little known. It can also alternatively be performed by smaller forces.
Schütz probably wrote the concerto for a major political occasion in connection with the Thirty Years’ War. He hauntingly set the plea for God’s help and peace throughout the land, sometimes in unison or for duet with echo passages, sometimes for tutti, but always in harmonically exciting fashion leading to the vision that finally “justice and peace kiss”. An exciting work for concerts on the theme of psalms and peace.
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Composer
Heinrich Schütz
| 1585-1672Heinrich Schütz is regarded as the first German musician of European stature. As a choirboy from 1599 at the court of Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel, he received a thorough education. In 1608 he began a law degree in Marburg, but broke this off in 1609 in order, with the support of the Landgrave, to study composition with Giovanni Gabrieli, organist at St Mark’s in Venice. In 1613 Schütz returned to Kassel, but two years later was enticed away by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony to the Dresden court as “Organist und Director der Musica”, where he held the position of Hofkapellmeister (court Kapellmeister) from 1617 until his death. Schütz’s great cycles of vocal works marked the high point of his reputation in Germany and northern Europe. But these represent only part of Schütz’s output; individual works are represented in printed collections with works by other composers, others only survive in manuscript, and much has been lost. The Stuttgart Schütz Edition makes available Schütz’s complete oeuvre, and all works are also published in practical Urtext editions. Personal details
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Editor
Uwe Wolf
| 1961Uwe Wolf studied musicology, history, and historical ancillary science at Tübingen and Göttingen. After receiving his doctorate in 1991 he was a research assistant at the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut in Göttingen. From 2004 he worked at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig. There he directed a both research departments, was substantially responsible for the redisigning of the Bach Museum, and he developed the digital Online-Projekt Bach. Since October 2011 he has been the Chief Editor at Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart. He has taught at various universities and also belongs to the editorial boards of several complete editions. Personal details
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Continuo realization
Daniel Ivo de Oliveira
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Meisterhaft ist in dem durchweg konzertant angelegten Werk mit einer Gesamtdauer von circa zwölf Minuten einerseits die Verbindung des Textes mit der Musik und andererseits die abwechslungsreich gestaltete Besetzung der einzelnen Verse.
Chorzeit, No. 98, Nov 2022
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Frequent questions about this work
Must the favoriti choir be sung by soloists?
As is often the case with Schütz, good choral soloists can also sing the favoriti choir, however, the solo and echo passages are relatively demanding.
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