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Michael Praetorius

Michael Praetorius had not been only one of the very most versatile and prolific German composers of the first seventeenth hundred years (only the remarkable, slightly younger Heinrich Schütz is of comparable importance) but also the writer of Syntagma musicum, a historically significant theoretical treatise on music. The precise calendar …

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