Heinrich Schütz

Yeah, so I thought we could listen to one of my favorite pieces ever, actually.

So it's from the Musikalische Exequien Heinrich Schütz.

So Schütz was the first musicological object of study that I turned to.

And the reason for that was because I got to the music library at Harvard and I looked at the the shelves and shelves and shelves of books on Bach.

du deine Lieder? In Frieden, in Frieden frei.

© transcript Emily Beynon ... ... ... ... ... © transcript Emily Beynon © transcript Emily Beynon Sie sind ihr anderes Leben Sie sind ihr anderes Leben Sie sind ihr anderes Leben Sie sind ihr anderes Leben My God, who is he? My God, who is he? My God, who is he? My God, who is he? ¶¶ Amen.

That was the final movement of Heinrich Schütze's musical exequium, which is a little masterpiece of combining the two texts around death, the Simeon song and the Blessed are the Dead.

Bettina, it's almost time to go, I'm afraid.

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... with whom she sings ancient and baroque works of composers such as Peter Abelard, Roland de Lassus, Thomas Tallis, and Heinrich Schütz, as w- as well as contemporary creations such as by John Cage and others.

Yeah, she has a wonderful breathy quality.

Yeah, yeah, just perfect.

And on this day, October 8th, birthdays include Italian composer Giulio Caccini, considered to be one of the first opera composers, born this day in 1551.

One of the first German opera composers, Heinrich Schutz, was born this day in 1585.

Italian composer Alessandro Stradella was born in 1644 and the German conductor, composer and tenor Franz Seidelmann was born in 1748.

In 1909, American baritone Mark Harrell was born.