Heinrich Schütz: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Henricus Sagittarius
Born October 8, 1585 • Germany
Died November 6, 1672 (aged 87) • Dresden • Germany
Notable Works “Christmas Oratorio” • “Dafne” • “Easter Oratorio” • “Musikalische Exequien” • “Symphoniae sacrae”
Movement / Style Baroque music • concertato style

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Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
French composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
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Giulio Caccini
Italian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
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Johann Christian Bach
German composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
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Johann Caspar von Kerll
German composer