Blasewitz is a larger borough ( Stadtbezirk ) of Dresden , Germany in the city's eastern centre on the Elbe river . It consists of seven quarters ( Stadtteile ):
31-607: Blasewitz is connected to the borough of Loschwitz north of the river Elbe by the Blue Wonder ( Blaues Wunder ) bridge, Johannstadt to the west, Striesen to the south, and Tolkewitz to the east. Blasewitz, Loschwitz and Weißer Hirsch form the core of a bigger city area which is known as Germany's largest coherent urban territory architecturally dominated by historic villas. As well as nearby quarters as Wachwitz and Kleinzschachwitz, they were all struck in World War II by
62-669: A cappella choral music. Representative works include his Psalmen Davids (Psalms of David, Opus 2), Cantiones sacrae (Opus 4), three books of Symphoniae sacrae , Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz ( The seven words of Jesus Christ on the Cross ), three Passion settings, and the Christmas Story . Schütz's music, while in the most progressive styles early in his career, eventually grew simple and almost austere, culminating in his late Passion settings. Practical considerations were certainly responsible for part of this change:
93-414: A great deal of imitation , but structured in such a way that the successive voices do not necessarily enter after the same number of beats or at predictable intervallic distances. This contrasts sharply with the manner of his contemporary Johann Hermann Schein and Samuel Scheidt , whose counterpoint usually flows in regularly spaced entries. Schütz's writing often includes intense dissonances caused by
124-469: A masterpiece, and is known today as the first German Requiem. Schütz was equally fluent in Latin and Germanic styles. Schütz was one of the last composers to write in a modal style. His harmonies often result from the contrapuntal alignment of voices rather than from any sense of "harmonic motion"; contrastingly, much of his music shows a strong tonal pull when approaching cadences . His music includes
155-577: A popular residence for the wealthy until its incorporation. Its main square is Schillerplatz, site of a movie theatre and Schillergalerie mall. Nearby is the Heilig-Geist-Kirche parish church, which was built in Neo-Gothic style in 1893 according to plans by Karl Emil Scherz. Friedrich Schiller eternalized Blasewitz in his play Wallensteins Lager where Justine Renner says: "Was der Blitz, das ist ja die Gustl von Blasewitz!" (Like
186-545: A retirement he had to beg for, to live with his sister (the house is now a museum of his life), but the Electoral Court often called him back to Dresden. He died in Dresden of a stroke in 1672 at age 87. He was buried in the old Dresden Frauenkirche, but his tomb was destroyed in 1727 when the church was torn down to build the new Dresden Frauenkirche . (His longtime house on the same square has been reconstructed in
217-475: Is evidenced in the surviving funicular railway, originally placed as an aid purely to residents in ascending the steep slopes of the river valley, and only recently having acquired novelty as a minor tourist attraction. Recently restored and operated by the local public transportation agency. Heinrich Sch%C3%BCtz Heinrich Schütz ( German: [ʃʏt͡s] ; 18 October [ O.S. 8 October] 1585 – 6 November 1672 )
248-565: Is of especial architectural and historical interest, as is the churchyard, for the many burials of notable people. It was full by about 1800 and was replaced by Loschwitz Cemetery . A popular place is the restaurant Luisenhof , built in 1895 and named after Crown Princess Luise of Saxony . The "Dresden balcony" offers a panoramic view of the city and the Elbe valley. Nearby is the Standseilbahn Dresden funicular railway as well as
279-568: Is the only person Schütz ever called his teacher. He inherited a ring from Gabrieli shortly before the latter's death. He was subsequently organist at Kassel from 1613 to 1615. After a prolonged negotiation between the landgrave and the elector, Schütz moved to Dresden in 1615 to work as court composer to the Elector of Saxony . In 1619 Schütz married Magdalena Wildeck (born 1601). She bore two daughters before her death in 1625: Anna Justina in 1621 and Euphrosyne in 1623. In Dresden Schütz sowed
310-533: The Battle of Stalingrad , who died here in 1957. Also a number of famous people stayed in Loschwitz for a short time: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Heinrich von Kleist , Ernst Moritz Arndt , Novalis , Ludwig Tieck , Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Leopold Auer and Anton Graff . Between the 1920s and 1930s Loschwitz used to be the most expensive living area of all Europe. This
341-476: The Blue Wonder ( Blaues Wunder ) bridge. Furthermore, the borough encompasses large parts of the Dresden Heath , the city's forest. The old village of Loschwitz, a wine -growing area since the 11th century, was first mentioned in a 1227 deed. About 1660 Elector John George II of Saxony had several vineyards laid out at the hillside, that soon became a fashionable recreational and residential area for
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#1732780940205372-619: The Electoral Chapel in Dresden. He wrote what is traditionally considered the first German opera , Dafne , performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost, along with nearly all of his ceremonial and theatrical scores. Schütz was a prolific composer, with more than 500 surviving works. He is commemorated as a musician in the Calendar of Saints of some North American Lutheran churches on 28 July with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel . Schütz
403-511: The Schwebebahn Dresden , the oldest suspension railway of the world, which both are still in use. Nobility and rich citizens of Dresden used to live in Loschwitz such as Theodor Körner , Carl Maria von Weber and Gerhard von Kügelgen . A famous inhabitant of Weißer Hirsch was the inventor Manfred von Ardenne with his institute for scientific research. One of his neighbours was the retired officer Friedrich Paulus , commander in
434-520: The Thirty Years' War devastated Germany's musical infrastructure, and it was no longer practical or even possible to put on the gigantic works in the Venetian style of his earlier period. Schütz's composition "Es steh Gott auf" (SWV 356) is in many respects comparable to Monteverdi. His funeral music " Musikalische Exequien " (1636) for his noble friend Heinrich Posthumus of Reuss is considered
465-669: The Dresden nobility and wealthy bourgeois like the composer Heinrich Schütz or the goldsmith Johann Melchior Dinglinger . The author Christian Gottfried Körner had a cottage within the vineyards, where his guest Friedrich Schiller wrote the Ode to Joy in 1785. About 1800 James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater acquired large estates, where from 1850 the Elbschlösser (Elbe Castles) were erected: Albrechtsberg Palace and Villa Stockhausen ( Lingnerschloss ) of Prince Albert of Prussia as well as Eckberg Castle, finished in 1861. The church
496-503: The Dutchman Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ); a century later this music culminated in the work of J.S. Bach . After Bach, the most important composers Schütz influenced were Anton Webern and Brahms , who studied his work. The following are major published works; most of these contain multiple pieces of music; single published works are also listed in the complete work list , including major works such as
527-500: The allied bombings but much less than others located closer to the city center. The destruction of whole streets ended at the street Fetscherstraße, which denotes the beginning of the described villa area. It is the biggest but not the only one of its kind in Dresden. Blasewitz was first mentioned in 1349. The village of fishermen and wine-growers developed into a suburb of Dresden in the Gründerzeit . Reasonably low taxes made it
558-480: The contrapuntal motion of voices moving in correct individual linear motion but resulting in startling harmonies. Above all, his music displays extreme sensitivity to the accents and meaning of the text, which is often conveyed using special technical figures drawn from musica poetica , themselves drawn from or created in analogy to the verbal figures of classical rhetoric . As noted above, Schütz's style became simpler in his later works, which make less frequent use of
589-676: The greatest Passionmusic before Bach. His pupils included Heinrich Albert , Christoph Bernhard , Anton Colander , Constantin Christian Dedekind , Carlo Farina , Johann Wilhelm Furchheim , Johann Kaspar Horn , Caspar Kittel , Christoph Kittel , Johann Klemm , Adam Krieger , Johann Jakob Loewe (or Löwe), Johann Nauwach , David Pohle , Philipp Stolle , Johann Theile , Clemens Thieme , Johann Vierdanck , Matthias Weckmann , Friedrich Werner , and Friedrich von Westhoff . (See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Heinrich Schutz .) Schütz moved back to Weißenfels, in
620-449: The high tide of the Elbe in 2013. Down the river 2013 many water levels exceeded those of 2002 which got known as Dresden's millennium flood. Loschwitz Loschwitz is a borough ( Stadtbezirk ) of Dresden , Germany , incorporated in 1921. It consists of ten quarters ( Stadtteile ): Loschwitz is a villa quarter located at the slopes north of the Elbe river. At the top of
651-512: The hillside is the quarter of Weißer Hirsch, named after a former inn erected in 1685 by the Saxon kapellmeister Christoph Bernhard , where in 1888 the naturopathic physician Heinrich Lahmann opened a sanatorium. The quarters of Wachwitz and Pillnitz are adjacent in the east and the Rosengarten park in the west. Loschwitz is connected with the borough of Blasewitz south of the Elbe by
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#1732780940205682-440: The kind of distantly related chords and licences found in such pieces as "Was hast du verwirket" (SWV 307) from Kleine geistliche Konzerte II . Beyond the early book of madrigals, almost no secular music by Schütz has survived, save for a few domestic songs ( arien ) and occasional commemorative items (such as Wie wenn der Adler sich aus seiner Klippe schwingt (SWV 434), and no purely instrumental music at all (unless one counts
713-470: The landgrave requested that his parents allow the boy to be sent to his noble court for further education and instruction. His parents initially resisted the offer, but after much correspondence they took Heinrich to the landgrave's seat at Kassel in August 1599. After being a choirboy, Schütz studied law at Marburg before going to Venice from 1609 to 1612 to study music with Giovanni Gabrieli . Gabrieli
744-851: The lightning that is the Gustl from Blasewitz). The Gymnasium Kreuzschule which was first mentioned in 1216, and is thus almost as old as Dresden, has been located in Striesen/Blasewitz since 1945. The Carl Maria von Weber Gymnasium and the Dresden International School are in Blasewitz as well, as was the Martin Andersen Nexoe Gymnasium high school until it moved to Striesen in 2008. The Waldpark municipal forestry park provides recreational facilities with tennis courts. The quarter on
775-548: The river is home to the rowing center of TU Dresden . There are a number of hostels and restaurants accompanied with a station of Sächsische Dampfschiffahrt . The areas in proximity to the river, particularly east of the Blue Wonder/ Blaues Wunder bridge, were badly affected by so far all-time record floods which hit Dresden and surroundings in 2002. Purported due to large-scale flood protection measures Dresden largely and Blasewitz almost completely escaped
806-526: The same style and is an apartment building with hotel rooms and a restaurant.) Schütz's compositions show the influence of Gabrieli (most notably in Schütz's use of polychoral and concertato styles) and Monteverdi. The influence of the Netherlandish composers of the 16th century is also prominent in his work. His best-known works are sacred, ranging from solo voice with instrumental accompaniment to
837-639: The seeds of what is now the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , but left there on several occasions; in 1628 he went to Venice again, where he may have met Claudio Monteverdi . In 1633 he was invited to Copenhagen to compose the music for wedding festivities there, returning to Dresden in 1635. He again conducted an extended visit to Denmark in 1641, due to the devastation of the Electoral court. The Thirty Years' War ended in 1648, and he again became more active in Dresden. In 1655,
868-528: The short instrumental movement, " sinfonia ", that encloses the dialogue of Die sieben Worte ), even though he had a reputation as one of Germany's finest organists. Schütz was of great importance in bringing new musical ideas to Germany from Italy, and thus had a large influence on the German music which was to follow. The style of the North German organ school derives largely from Schütz (as well as from
899-471: The year his daughter Euphrosyne died, he accepted an ex officio post as Kapellmeister at Wolfenbüttel . Schütz's Dresden compositions during the Thirty Years' War were, by necessity of the times, smaller-scale than the often massive earlier works; this period produced much of his most charming music. After the war, Schütz again wrote larger-scale compositions culminating in the 1660s, when he composed
930-590: Was a German early Baroque composer and organist , generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the early Baroque . Most of his surviving music was written for the Lutheran church, primarily for
961-767: Was born in Köstritz , the eldest son of Christoph Schütz and Euphrosyne Bieger. In 1590 the family moved to Weißenfels , where his father managed the inn "Zum güldenen Ring". His father eventually served as burgomaster in Weißenfels, and in 1615 purchased another inn known as both "Zur güldenen Sackpfeife" and "Zum güldenen Esel", which he renamed "Zum Schützen". While Schütz was living with his parents, his musical talents were discovered by Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in 1598 during an overnight stay in Christoph Schütz's inn. Upon hearing young Heinrich sing,