Es steh Gott auf (Let God arise), arranged for sackbut ensemble

Composer: SCHÜTZ, Heinrich
  • This is an arrangement “Es steh Gott auf” SWV 356, one of Schütz’s Symphoniae sacrae (From his Symphoniae sacrae II, op.10, published in Dresden in 1647).1 The original piece is scored for two tenors, violins and continuo.2
  • Schütz based this piece on a couple of works from Claudio Monteverdi’s Scherzi musicali (1632):3  “Armato il cor” and “Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti.” Schütz gives Monteverdi credit for this in the preface of Symphoniae sacrae II, making this a tribute to his friend and teacher.4
    • Schütz studied with Monteverdi during a visit to Italy in 1628 or 1629. From Monteverdi, Schütz became acquainted with the seconda prattica (early Baroque Italian techniques), which he then took home and combined with his Lutheran music traditions and brilliant knack for idiomatic German text setting to create the distinctive Schütz musical style.5

“The noble Monteverdi … guided him with joy and happily showed him the long-sought path.”

From an elegy for Schütz written by Dresden court poet David Schirmer.6

Sources

  1.  Joshua Rifkin, Eva Linfield, Derek McCulloch, and Stephen Baron, “Schütz, Heinrich,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 23, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000045997. 
  2.  “Symphoniae sacrae II, Op.10 (Schütz, Heinrich),” IMSLP, accessed January 23, 2020, https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphoniae_sacrae_II%2C_Op.10_(Sch%C3%BCtz%2C_Heinrich). 
  3.  Steven Lehning, program notes to “Kleine geistliche Konzerte & Symphoniae sacrae II,” The American Bach Soloists (2007), accessed January 23, 2020, https://americanbach.org/recordings/Schutz.pdf. 
  4.  Joshua Rifkin, Eva Linfield, Derek McCulloch, and Stephen Baron, “Schütz, Heinrich,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 23, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000045997. 
  5. Ibid.
  6. Joshua Rifkin, Eva Linfield, Derek McCulloch, and Stephen Baron, “Schütz, Heinrich,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 23, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000045997. 

Cut IDs

19256