12 Facts About Michael Praetorius

Michael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and music theorist.

Michael Praetorius was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns.

Michael Praetorius served in the duke's State Orchestra, first as organist and later as Kapellmeister.

The solo-voice, polychoral, and instrumental compositions Michael Praetorius prepared for these events mark the high period of his artistic creativity.

In Dresden Michael Praetorius worked and consulted with Heinrich Schutz from 1615 to 1619.

Michael Praetorius was probably already lying sick in bed in Wolfenbuttel by that time.

Michael Praetorius was the conventional Latinized form of this family name, Schultze meaning "village judge or magistrate" in German.

Michael Praetorius was a prolific composer; his compositions show the influence of Italian composers and his younger contemporary Heinrich Schutz.

Michael Praetorius's works include the 17 volumes of music published during his time as Kapellmeister to Duke Heinrich Julius of Wolfenbuttel, between 1605 and 1613.

Michael Praetorius's nine-part Musae Sioniae was a collection of chorales and vernacular music for the Lutheran service for 2 to 16 voices; he published an extensive collection of Latin music for the church service.

Michael Praetorius composed the familiar harmonization of Es ist ein Ros entsprungen and the motet "En natus est Emanuel", both published in 1609 in Musae Sioniae VI.

Michael Praetorius was a music academic whose writings were well known to other 17th-century musicians.