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Inscribed in 1672 on the composer's memorial tablet in the old Frauenkirche in Dresden (now lost through rebuilding), the Latin phrase 'Heinricus Schutzius Seculi sui Musicus excellentissimus' (Heinrich Schutz the most excellent musician of his age), grandly epitomizes the honour in which the composer was held in Lutheran Germany throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, and which has since been echoed, at first faintly, and then ever more robustly and more widely over the centuries to the present day.
Inscribed in 1672 on the composer's memorial tablet in the old Frauenkirche in Dresden (now lost through rebuilding), the Latin phrase 'Heinricus Schutzius Seculi sui Musicus excellentissimus' (Heinrich Schutz the most excellent musician of his age), grandly epitomizes the honour in which the composer was held in Lutheran Germany throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, and which ha…
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