Thanks to a stipend from his patron, the Landgrave Moritz von HessenKassel, Schütz was able to pursue a threeyear period of study under Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice from 1609 to 1612, which he concluded with the publication in 1611 of the madrigal collection Il Primo Libro de Madrigali. Already in this, his Opus primus, Schütz emerged as an outstanding composer: In their musical quality, the 18 fivepart madrigals exceed much that was still being composed in the traditional madrigal style at the beginnning of the 17th century.
- ISBN: 9783899481426 (3899481429)
- ISMN: 9790007037284 (M007037284)