Die lateinische Sprache im Werk von Heinrich Schütz

Abstract

Schütz employed Latin in his music in two different ways: Firstly, in the traditional motet setting which recalls a text already known, and secondly, in modern dramatic recitation, which, as it is realized spontaneously, creates a text each time virtually anew. Rhetorical creation devices play an important part in the latter of the two forms. The works of this group are characterized by the Romance (Italian) sense of language and differ markedly from Schütz’s compositions in German. (Autor)