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Johann Hermann Schein is a German composer and poet born on 20 juin 1586 in Grünhain , now Grünhain-Beierfeld in Saxony , and died onNovember 19, 1630 in Leipzig.
On the death of his father, he joined Dresden and its choir . He received a musical education there. Between 1603 and 1607 he studied at the Regional School in Pforta , then between 1608 and 1612 at the University of Leipzig . He became chapel master in Weimar , then Thomaskantor at the chapel of Saint-Thomas in Leipzig , a position he held until the end of his life and which was held nearly a century later by Johann Sebastian Bach who used one of his texts in his cantata BWV 10.
He becomes a friend of Heinrich Schütz , but unlike the latter, his health remains fragile. His wife dies of the aftermath of her fifth child (four of the latter died during childhood). He himself died at the age of 44 from tuberculosis and kidney problems.
Schein is the first German to take inspiration from the novelties of Italian baroque music ( concertante style , monody , figurative bass ) and to use them in a Lutheran context . However, we note that, unlike Schütz, the musician remained in Germany all his life. His first references are probably the German edition of Lodovico Viadana's Cento concerti ecclesiastici .
Also unlike Schütz who wrote that religious music, Schein is dedicated equally to secular music and church music , almost all remaining voice . He is the author of secular texts. During his life, he thus alternated collections of religious music and secular music, sometimes of circumstance, for certain festivities. The Italian madrigalist inspiration and its deep devotion contrast particularly with other pieces, inspired by drinking songs . The expressiveness of some of his works reaches the level of those of Schütz. As an example, we can cite the motets of Fountain of Israel ( 1623) where the composer claims to attempt to express all the power of the prosody of the German text in the Italian madrigal style.
He wrote only one collection of instrumental music , his Musical Banchetto dating from 1617 . This contains 20 suites and variations , and is one of the oldest - and most successful - testimonies of this musical form . The suites are intended as accompanying music for the court dinners in Weissenfels and Weimar , and were to be performed on a set of viols . They are made up of a series of dances: pavane , gaillarde , running to end with a German .
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