#HeinrichSchütz #ClassicalMusic #BaroqueMusic #MusicHistory

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(00:20:20) Final Years

(00:26:42) Musical Development and Historical Impact

(00:36:17) Life Apart from Music

(00:43:05) Where to find him today

(00:50:06) Summary

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/4Fw8f0YbjBs9suGEwInPJe?si=_VKImi_yTy6M0mTJOOuOOQ

Schütz House: https://schuetzhaus-weissenfels.de/museum/heinrich-schutz/

Weißenfels Music Week: https://www.schuetz-musikfest.de/

Birthplace Museum in Bad Köstritz: https://heinrich-schuetz-haus.de/

International Heinrich Schütz Society: https://www.schuetzgesellschaft.de/

Heinrich Schütz Choir: https://www.hsc-hn.de/

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(00:30:36) Musical Development and Historical Impact

(00:44:21) Life Apart from Music

(00:51:30) Where to find him today

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A man between two musical worlds: discover Michael Praetorius, the hidden genius who transformed Lutheran sacred music, embraced Italian innovations without ever visiting Italy, and left an extraordinary legacy in just fifty years. Join us on a journey through the courts of early Baroque Germany to meet a composer, organist, theorist, and visionary whose music is still waiting to be fully rediscovered.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/0OTPgUKkDp058dC3czXFM2?si=qUD5p94JTH-hAn7S0U2Vsw

Grave: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/20472947/michael-praetorius

Society: https://www.michael-praetorius.de/?page_id=39

Collegium: https://www.michael-praetorius.de/?page_id=30

Youth orchestra: https://www.praetoriusleipzig.de/

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(00:06:25) Life and Career

(00:21:33) Final Years

(00:28:43) Musical Development and Historical Impact

(00:34:12) Life Apart from Music

(00:41:14) Where to Find Him Today

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Plague, war, unpaid wages, a furious music critic, and a composer quietly reinventing what music could do.

In this episode, we dive into the life of Claudio Monteverdi, the man who turned stiff court entertainments into living, breathing drama. From the explosive premiere of *Orfeo* to the heartbreak and genius behind his famous laments, you’ll hear how one stubborn, rule‑breaking composer gave opera its emotional value—and why his music still hits unnervingly close to home today.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/5iAhVgz6P8Nylxijb0C65v?si=p5tiucaBR5a71sU32bOXSg

Society: https://www.fondazionemonteverdi.it/

Monteverdi Festival: https://www.monteverdifestivalcremona.it/en/

Museo del Violino: https://museodelviolino.org/it/

Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists: https://monteverdi.co.uk/

Grave: https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/7571/claudio-monteverdi

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(00:20:10) Musical Development and Historical Impact

(00:25:39) Life Apart from Music

(00:30:00) Where to find him today

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Step into Florence around 1600, where a gifted singer with magnificent golden hair quietly changed music forever. This episode tells the vivid, often messy life story of Jacopo Peri: court musician, municipal treasurer, survivor of two plagues, father of ten, and composer of Euridice, the oldest complete opera we have. You will hear about artistic rivalries, political games at the Medici court, spectacular premieres that went wrong, and the moment recitative was invented almost by accident. If you love Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, or Wagner, this is the unlikely origin story of the art form they all inherited.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/2Qm0WBKIumxRTbeIpx1DnO?si=3M7twZtiTymfQ9mpGObh6g

Grave: https://www.smn.it/en/

(00:01:37) Childhood and youth

(00:08:25) Life and career

(00:19:46) Final years

(00:25:38) Musical development and historical impact

(00:33:49) Life apart from music

(00:40:18) Where to find him today.

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Thomas Morley (c.1557–1602) was one of the brightest voices of Elizabethan music: organist, singer, teacher, theorist, publisher, and the composer who helped make the English madrigal a true national art. In this episode, we follow his journey from chorister in Norwich to the Chapel Royal in London, exploring how he learned from William Byrd, navigated religious and political tension, and turned Italian styles into vivid English songs sung in homes across the country. We also look at his role in music printing, his possible work as an intelligence agent, his great treatise on music, and why his pieces are still performed and loved today.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/6nLcghsTUtvQzu7aiu8HbO?si=jLm_4F-RRo27gvlY-uB4eQ

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCybsXzqmCLiYhUima-WRK6A

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(00:30:43) Musical development and historical impact

(00:40:17) Life apart from music

(00:47:44) Where to find him today.

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Step into sixteenth‑century Venice and discover Andrea Gabrieli, the organist‑composer who turned San Marco into a vast, shimmering sound laboratory and helped invent the Venetian School’s breathtaking polychoral style. Hear how a working‑class Venetian became a court‑favoured innovator, scored music, and left a rich legacy.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/61tgIUsrOcw3AMTLxuZHr1?si=dhLvpjUARjmuhH4ZsfuFCQ

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:39) Childhood and Youth

(00:09:43) Life and Career

(00:25:18) Final Years

(00:30:40) Musical Development and Historical Impact

(00:40:17) Life Apart from Music

(00:47:50) Where to Find Him Today

(00:56:13) Summary

(00:01:34) Childhood and youth

(00:06:49) Life and career

(00:16:40) Final years

(00:23:01) Musical development and historical impact

(00:32:18) Life apart from music

(00:37:18) Where to find him today.

(00:43:08) Summary

Kidnapped three times for the beauty of his voice, knighted by a pope, adored by emperors – yet almost forgotten today. This episode uncovers the extraordinary life and music of Orlando di Lasso, a Renaissance superstar whose witty, deeply human works still speak to us.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/66hSfMemmixjY58p7KcTV6?si=tGAweMM0Q_6rtTozZVRFRw

Society: https://www.orlanduslassus.de/was-ist-die-orlandus-lassus-stiftung/

Tour: https://musikspaziergang.de/events/auf-den-spuren-orlando-di-lassos/

Monument: https://municharttogo.zikg.eu/items/show/337

Gravestone: https://www.bayerisches-nationalmuseum.de/sammlung/00037200

Projects: https://lasso.badw.de/das-projekt.html

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(00:08:30) Life and career

(00:20:30) Final years

(00:26:14) Musical development and historical impact

(00:40:25) Life apart from music

(00:47:21) Where to find him today.

(00:56:35) Summary

This episode invites listeners into the world of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, where sacred music, ambition, grief, and legend converge in one extraordinary Renaissance life. Expect a portrait of a composer who not only shaped the sound of Catholic worship but also survived professional setbacks, devastating personal losses, and the pressures of a changing Church—emerging as one of Western music’s most enduring voices.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/artist/0BS8IrFmvK1tXenMULjwem?si=FVUDqyPJTLSP8Og8nDJYKg

Museum & Society: https://www.italia.it/de/latium/palestrina/kulturstaetten/stiftung-giovanni-pierluigi-da-palestrina

Monument: https://www.walksinrome.com/blog/february-2nd-1594-death-in-rome-of-the-composer-palestrina

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