Schütz-Jahrbuch 2021, 43. Jahrgang

Schütz-Jahrbuch 2021, 43. Jahrgang

The Schütz Yearbook 2021 has two focal points: Michael Praetorius and Schütz's "Cantiones sacrae".  The texts on Praetorius deal with his aesthetics as reflected in the "Syntagma musicum" (Ivana Rentsch), the notation of his organ works (Jeffery Kite-Powell), Jesus mysticism in the early 17th century (Beate Agnes Schmidt), his ideas on performance practice in comparison with Schütz (Manfred Cordes) and the reception of his music in the 19th and early 20th centuries (Walter Werbeck).  Ernst Koch locates the texts set by Schütz in the "Cantiones sacrae" in contemporary theology, while Stefan Michel deals with the dedicatee of the collection, Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, and traces his function at the imperial court and his piety.

In addition are four contributions: Carl-Philipp Kaptain introduces father and son Andreas Oswald, who worked as organists in Weimar and Eisenach, Werner Breig enriches the discussion of Schütz's and Opitz's "Dafne", Johann Anselm Steiger looks at the text for SWV 431 ("Christe fac ut sapiam", final piece from the "Zwölf geistliche Gesänge"), and Andreas Erb presents new Schütz documents from the Chemnitz State Archives, which show how skilfully the composer also knew how to move in a legal parquet.