Nakład wyprzedany, ostatni egzemplarz When Schütz published the second volume of the Symphoniæ Sacræ in 1647, he was deeply dissatisfied with his professional situation as court conductor in Dresden, where the cultivation of the arts had come to a standstill as a result of the Thirty Years' War, which had already lasted several decades. The Symphoniæ Sacræ are clearly influenced by the music of Venice, which was a determining factor in Heinrich Schütz's life. Schütz had two opportunities in Italy to get to know the musical avant-garde of his time: from 1609 to 1612 he studied with Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice, where this master revolutionized church music at St. Mark's Basilica; in 1628 / 29 he encountered the still young genre of opera in Florence and became acquainted with the new monodic compositional style in Venice, which became the defining style for secular and sacred vocal music with its emphatic settings close to the text.
Works:
•Schütz, Heinrich: Es steh' Gott auf, dass seine Feind' zerstreuet werden SWV.356
•Schütz, Heinrich: Was betrübst du dich, meine Seele SWV.353
•Schütz, Heinrich: Singet dem Herren ein neues Lied SWV.342
•Schütz, Heinrich: Drei schöne Dinge seind SWV.365
•Schütz, Heinrich: Herr, unser Herrscher SWV.343
•Schütz, Heinrich: Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum SWV.350
•Schütz, Heinrich: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen SWV.366
•Schütz, Heinrich: Verleih uns Frieden SWV.354
•Schütz, Heinrich: Gib unsern Fürsten SWV.355
•Schütz, Heinrich: Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren SWV.352
•Schütz, Heinrich: Freuet euch des Herren, ihr Gerechten SWV.367