It is almost night, my Lydia

(Words and Chords to Nearly 1200 Songs 9x12 Spiral Bound). Edited by Annie Patterson and Peter Blood. For Vocal. Vocal. Softcover. 304 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

SKU: CA.2090100

Composed by Heinrich Schutz. Edited by Siegfried Schmalzriedt. This edition: urtext. Cycles: Schutz: Italienische Madrigale SWV 1-19. Complete editions / Selected works: Heinrich Schutz Complete Edition. German title: Italienische Madrigale. Madrigals, Secular choral music. Full score (complete edition / selected edition). Composed 1623. 152 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 20.901/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2090100).

ISBN 9790007037284.

Thanks to a stipend from his patron, the Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel, Schutz was able to pursue a three-year 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, Schutz emerged as an outstanding composer: In their musical quality, the 18 five-part madrigals exceed much that was still being composed in the traditional madrigal style at the beginnning of the 17th century.