Michael Praetorius (probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and writer about music. Events 590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia 1637 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor Events 590 - Khosrau II is crowned as king of Persia 1637 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon "organ instrument tool" is a Keyboard instrument of one or more divisions each Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns. The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time A hymn is a type of Song, usually religious specifically written for the purpose of praise adoration or Prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities
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Life
He was born Michael Schultze, the youngest son of a Lutheran pastor, in Creuzburg, Germany. Creuzburg is a town on the Werra river in the Wartburgkreis in Thuringia, Germany. He studied divinity in Torgau, Frankfurt (Oder) and Zerbst. Torgau is a Town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany. Frankfurt (Oder is a City in Brandenburg, Germany, located on the Oder River on the German- Polish border directly opposite the Zerbst is a Town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He served as organist at the Marienkirche in Frankfurt before working at the court in Wolfenbüttel as organist and (from 1604) as Kapellmeister. An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or Orchestra, or accompany Kapellmeister (kəˈpɛlˌmaɪstər is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making From 1613 to 1616 he worked at the Saxon court at Dresden, where he was exposed to the latest Italian music, including the polychoral works of the Venetian School. The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen ˈzaksən Swobodny Stat Sakska is the easternmost federal state of Germany. Dresden (etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Drježdźany is the Capital city of the German Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Venetian polychoral style was a type of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras which involved spatially separate Choirs singing in alternation In music history the Venetian School is a term used to describe the Composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610; it also describes His subsequent development of the form of the chorale concerto, particularly the polychoral variety, resulted directly from his familiarity with the music of such Venetians as Giovanni Gabrieli. In Music, a chorale concerto is a short sacred composition for one or more voices and instruments principally from the very early German Baroque era Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1554/1557 &ndash August 12 1612 was an Italian Composer and organist. Michael Praetorius is entombed in a vault beneath the organ of St. Mary's Church in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
Name
His family name in German appears in various forms including Schultze, Schulte, Schultheiss, Schulz and Schulteis. Praetorius is the Latinized form of the family name.
Works
Praetorius was a tremendously prolific composer, his works showing the influence of contemporaries Samuel Scheidt and Heinrich Schütz as well as the Italians. Samuel Scheidt (baptized November 3 1587 &ndash March 24 1654 was a German Composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era Heinrich Schütz (October 8 ( JC) 1585 Köstritz - November 6 1672 Dresden) was a German Composer and organist, generally regarded His works include the nine volume Musae sioniae (1605-10), a collection of over a thousand chorale and song arrangements; many other works for the Lutheran church; and Terpsichore (1612), a compendium of over 300 instrumental dances, which is both his most widely-known work, as well as his sole surviving secular work. A chorale was originally a Hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther For the Fern Genus, see Terpsichore (fern. In Greek mythology, Terpsichore (tərpˈsɪkəri (Τερψιχόρη His three volume treatise Syntagma musicum (1614-20) is a detailed text on contemporary musical practices and musical instruments, and is an important document in musicology, organology and the field of authentic performance. A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. Musicology ( Greek: μουσική = "music" and λόγος = "word" or "reason" is the scholarly study of Music Organology (from Greek: - organon "instrument" and λόγος - logos "study" is the science of Musical instruments and The historically informed performance, period performance, or authentic performance movement is an approach by musicians and scholars to research and perform works (See Praetorius for other composers called Praetorius . Praetorius Prätorius Prætorius was the name of several musicians and scholars in Germany. )
References
- Denis Arnold (editor), (1983), New Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford University Press. Denis Midgley Arnold, CBE ( 15 December 1926 -1986 was a British Musicologist. The Oxford Companion to Music is a popular music reference book in the series of Oxford Companions produced by the Oxford University Press (Article by editor. )
- Stephan Perreau (1996). Liner notes to Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore. Naxos 8. 553865.
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- Michael Praetorius, biography on Goldberg, the Early Music Portal. Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a repository of Free content images sound and other multimedia files The cornett, cornetto or zink is an early wind instrument dating from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods The tenor cornett or lizard was a common musical instrument in the Renaissance and Baroque periods The crumhorn is a Musical instrument of the Woodwind family most commonly used during the Renaissance period The recorder is a woodwind Musical instrument of the family known as Fipple Flutes ' or internal duct flutes &mdash whistle-like The shawm was a Medieval and Renaissance Musical instrument of the Woodwind family made in Europe from the late 13th century until The Sackbut (var Sacbutt Sackbutt Sagbutt a Brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras is the ancestor of the modern Trombone The trombone is a Musical instrument in the brass family Like all brass instruments it is a lip-reed Aerophone: sound is produced when the player’s
- Michael Praetorius free scores in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Free scores by Michael Praetorius in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
- Michael Praetorius was listed in the International Music Score Library Project
- Michael Pratorius - facsimiles in The Royal Library, Copenhagen
- Easybyte - free easy piano music for Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
- Listen to free Vocal Evangelical Church Music by Michael Praetorius at "Early Vocal Music Map" from Umeå Akademiska Kör. The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL is a Sheet music archive which focuses on choral and vocal Music in the Public domain. The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of Public domain Sheet music. The International Music Score Library Project ( IMSLP) is a project for the creation of a virtual library of Public domain music scores, based on the
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