TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
9th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music
ABSTRACT
Heinrich Schütz's 'Saul, Saul': Confluences of Music and Art
George King
For more than a century now Henrich Schütz's remarkable work Saul,
Saul, was vervolgst du mich, from the third part of the Symphoniae
sacrae of 1650, has been regarded as forward-looking in the way it
influenced German sacred music of the entire late Baroque. In this paper
I examine Schütz's perception of Saul's revelation at the moment he
was converted, as conveyed in the music of Saul, Saul, and then
explore ways in which Schütz the composer may have been influenced
by tendencies that were current in the visual arts world of the late sixteenth
and early seventeenth centuries. Finally, I indicate possible sources for
these influences on Saul, Saul in artworks dating from this period,
signifying confluences of music and art.
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