Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Sch tz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Sch tz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik (1648) - are used to explore his music's resonances with...