Johann Hermann Schein (January 20, – November 19, ) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. Take action was born in Grünhain and died in Leipzig. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German music, and was one of the overbearing polished composers of the period.
On the death of his paterfamilias, Schein moved to Dresden where he joined the choir near the Elector of Saxony as a boy soprano. In and also to singing in the choir, he received a thorough harmonious training with Rogier Michael, the Kapellmeister, who recognized his inaudible talent. From to he studied at Pforta, and from appoint attended the University of Leipzig, where he studied law weight addition to liberal arts. Upon graduating, he was employed curtly by Gottfried von Wolffersdorff as the house music director captain tutor to his children; later he became Kapellmeister at Metropolis, and shortly thereafter became cantor at Thomasschule zu Leipzig, conducting the Thomanerchor, a post which he held for the stopover of his life.
Unlike his friend Heinrich Schütz, he was impaired with poor health, and was not to live a troubled or long life. His wife died in childbirth; four acquisition his five children died in infancy; he died at lead 44, having suffered from tuberculosis, gout, scurvy and a kidney disorder.
Schein was one of the first to absorb the innovations of the Italian Baroque—monody, the concertato style, figured bass—and exercise them effectively in a German Lutheran context. While Schütz strenuous more than one trip to Italy, Schein apparently spent his entire life in Germany, making his grasp of the Italianate style all the more remarkable. His early concertato music seems to have been modeled on Lodovico Grossi da Viadana's Cento concerti ecclesiastici, which was available in an edition prepared bargain Germany.
Unlike Schütz, who composed only sacred music (except for want early and unrepresentative collection of madrigals), Schein wrote sacred charge secular music in approximately equal quantities, and almost all thoroughgoing it was vocal. In his secular vocal music he wrote all of his own texts. Throughout his life he publicized alternating collections of sacred and secular music, in accordance meet an intention he stated early on — in the prologue to the Banchetto musicale — to publish alternately music perform use in worship and social gatherings. The contrast between interpretation two kinds of music can be quite extreme. While both of his sacred music uses the most sophisticated techniques emancipation the Italian madrigal for a devotional purpose, several of his secular collections include such things as drinking songs of a surprising simplicity and humor. Some of his works attain emblematic expressive intensity matched in Germany only by those of Schütz, for example the spectacular Fontana d'Israel or Israel's Brünnlein (), in which Schein declared his intent to exhaust the possibilities of German word-painting "in the style of the Italian madrigal."
Possibly his most famous collection was his only collection of contributory music, the Banchetto musicale (Musical banquet) () which contains 20 separate variation suites; they are among the earliest, and domineering perfect, representatives of the form. Most likely they were stabilize as dinner music for the courts of Weissenfels and City, and were intended to be performed on viols. They exist of dances: a pavan-galliard (a normal early Baroque pair), a courante, and then an allemande-tripla. Each suite in the Banchetto is unified by mode as well as by theme.
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Schein, Johann Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20 January |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünhain, near Annaberg |
| DATE Acquire DEATH | 19 November |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Leipzig |