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'''Heinrich Schütz''' (1585-1672), [[German]] [[composer]], bridges the gap between the polyphonic schools in various regions that found their greatest expression in the unaccompanied choral music of [[Palestrina]], [[Lassus]], [[William Byrd|Byrd]] and their contemporaries, and the later accompanied contrapuntal excellence of [[Bach]] and [[Handel]]. He is considered to be the first [[German]] composer of international renown.

'''Heinrich Schütz''' (1585-1672), [[German]] [[composer]], bridges the gap between the [[polyphony|polyphonic]] schools in various regions that found their greatest expression in the unaccompanied choral music of [[Palestrina]], [[Lassus]], [[William Byrd|Byrd]] and their contemporaries, and the later accompanied [[counterpoint|contrapuntal]] excellence of [[Bach]] and [[Handel]]. He is considered to be the first [[German]] composer of international renown.

He was a choirboy in his local church choir, began to study law, before being persuaded to become a pupil of [[Giovanni Gabrieli]] in [[Venice]]. By 1615 he was Kapellmeister at the Elector’s court at [[Dresden]], a post that he would hold intermittently between periods in [[Italy]] as study and the turmoil of the [[Thirty Years War]] dictated.

He was a choirboy in his local church choir, began to study law, before being persuaded to become a pupil of [[Giovanni Gabrieli]] in [[Venice]]. By 1615 he was Kapellmeister at the Elector’s court at [[Dresden]], a post that he would hold intermittently between periods in [[Italy]] as study and the turmoil of the [[Thirty Years War]] dictated.