Albinoni |
Bach |
Biber |
Blow |
Buxtehude |
Caccini
Carissimi | Chambonnières | Charpentier | Corelli | Couperin | Frescobaldi
Froberger | Geminiani | Gluck | Händel | Lully | Metastasio
Monteverdi | Pachelbel | Pepusch | Pergolesi | Peri | Purcell
Rameau | Sammartini | Scarlatti | Scheidt | Schein | Schütz
Stradella | Tartini | Telemann | Torelli | Vivaldi | Zachau
Carissimi | Chambonnières | Charpentier | Corelli | Couperin | Frescobaldi
Froberger | Geminiani | Gluck | Händel | Lully | Metastasio
Monteverdi | Pachelbel | Pepusch | Pergolesi | Peri | Purcell
Rameau | Sammartini | Scarlatti | Scheidt | Schein | Schütz
Stradella | Tartini | Telemann | Torelli | Vivaldi | Zachau
Johann Hermann Schein
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(b Grünhain, Saxony 1586, d Leipzig 1630)
German composer. Chorister, Dresden court chapel from 1599. Court Kapellmeister, Weimar, from 1615. Cantor of Thomas School, Leipzig, from 1616. One of first German musicians to benefit from Italian influence. Wrote nearly 100 chorale melodies and harmonizations, sacred songs in Italian style, villanelles, madrigals, Venus Kräntzlein (new secular songs, 1609), motets, dance suites, wedding songs, etc.