Heinrich Schütz

(1585-1672)

"Laocoon" (1608), oil on canvas, 142 x 193 cm, of the painter Domenikos El Greco, contemporary of Schütz (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

The musician Heinrich (Henrich) Schütz was born in Köstritz on the 8th October 1585 He died in Dresda on the 6th November 1672

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Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 From the late Mediaeval to modern epoch

Heinrich Schütz

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"Dafne", Tragicommedia per musica in in un prologo and cinque atti, was performed on the 13rd of April 1627 in Torgau

"Orpheus und Euridice" was performed on the 20th of November 1638 in Dresda

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