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Father of German Music

Yazan: ayong | 01 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology

Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson, The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence, p. 25: [Heinrich] Schütz’s first masterpiece in the “grand Italian manner” was his setting of The Psalms of David in 1619. He is often called the father of German music, and it is refreshing and enlightening to observe that he [...]

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