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Musikalische Exequien is a German-language funeral composition by Heinrich Schutz, published in 1636 and written for the obsequies of Heinrich Posthumus Reuss. Its three parts combine biblical and chorale texts selected for the prince's coffin with writing for voices, continuo, and small vocal ensem...
Heinrich Schütz's Symphoniae Sacrae, published in three volumes (1629, 1647, 1650), are Latin and German sacred concerti that synthesized the Italian Baroque innovations of Monteverdi with German Protestant tradition.
Geistliche Chormusik is a collection of 29 German sacred motets by Heinrich Schütz, published in Dresden in 1648. Written mainly for five to seven vocal parts, the pieces demonstrate contrapuntal composition and careful treatment of German biblical and devotional texts. Schütz presented the collecti...
The Seven Last Words of Christ, catalogued as SWV 478, is a sacred work by Heinrich Schütz dating from around the middle of the seventeenth century. It combines an opening and closing chorus with a narrated account of Christ's words from the cross, assigning the central Gospel text to solo voices an...
Schütz’s Christmas Oratorio, SWV 435, represents a pivotal moment in German Baroque music. Composed in 1664, this sacred choral work tells the story of Christ's birth through a series of substantial cantatas. The oratorio blends Italianate recitative styles with traditional Lutheran chorales, showca...
Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi, SWV 435, is Heinrich Schütz's musical setting of the Nativity narrative, published in 1664 and commonly called his Christmas Story or Christmas Oratorio. A tenor Evangelist delivers the biblical account in recitative, while angels, shepherds, wise men, priests, and...
The Weihnachtshistorie (Christmas History), designated SWV 435, is a sacred oratorio composed by Heinrich Schütz in 1664. The work narrates the Nativity story through an Evangelist's recitatives, accompanied by strings and continuo. Schütz structured the composition with distinct, concertato interlu...
Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi is Heinrich Schütz's 1623 Easter oratorio, one of the earliest German works in the genre, combining biblical text with polyphonic choruses.
