Schütz: Musikalische Exequien

SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2020
7:00 PM

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You'd hate to have to pick out one composer as the single most popularly underrated in all of Western music — but Heinrich Schütz is certainly a frontrunner.  He occupied the same Renaissance-into-Baroque position in Germany that Monteverdi occupied in Italy — except Monteverdi led to Corelli and Vivaldi, whereas Schütz led to Bach.  Musikalische Exequien is Schütz's masterpiece of funerary music (let's try not to think too hard about that), the first known requiem in the German language.  This is fascinating, highly effective music.

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