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Michael Praetorius
1571-1621 DE, Creuzburg
Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Michael Schultze
Michael Praetorius (probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns, many of which reflect an effort to improve the relationship between Protestants and Catholics.
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weihnachtmusik In Der Renaissance - Renaissance Christmas Music | Johannes Eccard, Johann Walter, Andreas Reussner Der Ältere, Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Arnolt Schlick, Michael Praetorius, Bartholomäus Gesius, Erhard Bodenschatz, Roland de Lassus, Jacobus Gallus, Samuel Scheidt, Tölzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden | 2017 | Album |
| Splendour: Organ Music & Vocal Works | Dieterich Buxtehude, Hans Leo Haßler, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Scheidemann, Kei Koïto, Ensemble Vocale Il Canto Di Orfeo | 2017 | Album |
| Motets Vol. 1 | Michael Praetorius, Noël Akchoté | 2016 | Album |
| Reformationsmesse - Mass For The Reformation Jubilee, Dresden 1617 | Heinrich Schütz • Michael Praetorius – Musica Fiata, La Capella Ducale, Roland Wilson | 2014 | Album |
| In Dulci Jubilo | Klaus Eichhorn, Capella Cantorum Berlin, Michael Praetorius | 2012 | Album |
| Musikalische Exequien / Trauermusik | Heinrich Schütz / Michael Praetorius / Johann Hermann Schein / Christopher Demantius - Schütz-Akademie, Howard Arman | 2009 | Album |
| Der Wächter Auf Der Zinne / The Guard On The Battlement / Le Veilleur Entre Les Créneaux | Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt - Dominique Visse, Capella De La Torre, Katharina Bäuml | 2009 | Album |
| Puer Natus In Bethlehem Advent And Christmas Music | Michael Praetorius - Bremer Barock Consort, Manfred Cordes | 2007 | Album |
| Pro Organico | Michael Praetorius - Jean-Charles Ablitzer | 2007 | Album |
| Grand Bal À La Cour D'Henri IV | Michael Praetorius & Pierre Guédron – Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin-Dadre | 2006 | Album |
| Le Muse Profane: Danze Del Primo Barocco Tedesco | Erasmus Widmann, Michael Praetorius, Accademia Del Ricercare, Pietro Busca | 2004 | Album |
| Renaissance Dance Music | Pierre-Francisque Caroubel - Valentin Haussmann - Giorgio Mainerio - Michael Praetorius - Johann Hermann Schein - Erasmus Widmann | 2001 | Compil. |
| Tanzmusik um 1600 | Pierre-Francisque Caroubel - Valentin Haussmann - Giorgio Mainerio - Michael Praetorius - Johann Hermann Schein - Erasmus Widmann | 2001 | Compil. |
| Terpsichore | Michael Praetorius / Ricercare-Ensemble Für Alte Musik, Zürich | 2000 | Album |
| Dances From Terpsichore | Michael Praetorius - Westra Aros Pijpare • Lena Hellström-Färnlöf • Ensemble Bourrasque • Bertil Färnlöf | 1998 | Album |
| Weihnachtliche Motetten Und Lieder: Christmas Motets And Chorale Concertos | Michael Praetorius | 1996 | Album |
| Dances From Terpsichore / Motets From Musae Sionae | Michael Praetorius : The Early Music Consort Of London, David Munrow | 1996 | Album |
| Deutsche Orgelmusik Des Barock | Johann Sebastian Bach, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, Dieterich Buxtehude | 1995 | Album |
| Christmette (Christmas Mass • Messe De Noël) | Michael Praetorius - Gabrieli Consort & Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh | 1994 | Album |
| Terpsichore Musarum (1612) | Michael Praetorius - Ricercar Consort, Ensemble La Fenice | 1994 | Album |
| Dances From Terpsichore / Secular Songs | Michael Praetorius - David Munrow, The Early Music Consort Of London | 1993 | Compil. |
| Cien Obras Unicas De Música Clásica Volumen 1 | Michael Praetorius / Johann Sebastian Bach / Georg Friedrich Händel / Antonio Vivaldi / Tomaso Albinoni | 1992 | Compil. |
| Magnificat | Michael Praetorius - Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel | 1992 | Album |
| Danses de Terpsichore | Michael Praetorius, Christian Mendoze | 1991 | Album |
| Weihnachtsgeschichte Christmas Story / Vier Monetten Aus Polyhymnia Caduceatrix Et Panegyrica | Heinrich Schütz - Michael Praetorius - Andrew Parrott - Taverner Choir | 1987 | Album |
| In Dulci Jubilo, Polychoral Music From Venice And Germany | Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Gabrieli, Michael Praetorius, Winchester Cathedral Choir, London Cornett And Sackbut Ensemble, Martin Neary | 1987 | Album |
| In Dulci Jubilo | Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Gabrieli, Michael Praetorius, Winchester Cathedral Choir, London Cornett And Sackbutt Ensemble, Martin Neary | 1987 | Album |
| Histoire De La Nativité/ Christmas History - Motets | Heinrich Schütz, Michael Praetorius | 1986 | Album |
| Dances From Terpsichore | New London Consort, Philip Pickett / Michael Praetorius | 1986 | Album |
| Christmas Music | Michael Praetorius, Westminster Cathedral Choir, The Parley Of Instruments, David Hill | 1986 | Album |
| German Baroque Brass Music | Valerius Otto, Michael Praetorius, Johann Hermann Schein, Samuel Scheidt | 1985 | Album |
| Excerpts From Terpsichore | Michael Praetorius, The New York Renaissance Band | 1985 | Album |
| Danzas Del Renacimiento | Joan Ambrosia Dalza, Hans Neusiedler, Claude Gervaise, Pierre Phalèse, John Dowland, Pierre Attaignant, Michael Praetorius, Erasmus Widmann, Johann Hermann Schein | 1984 | Album |
| 8 Bayreuther Festspiel-Hornisten | Richard Wagner, Karl Stiegler, Johann Pezel, Tomás de Santa María, Michael Praetorius, Bedřich Diviš Weber, Gioacchino Rossini - Bayreuther Festspielhornisten | 1984 | Album |
| Posaunenmusik Des Deutschen Barock | Heinrich Schütz, Daniel Speer, Michael Praetorius, Samuel Scheidt, Melchior Franck, Slokar Posaunenquartett | 1984 | Album |
| Dances From "Terpsichore" And Other Dances From The Early Baroque | Michael Praetorius, Collegium Terpsichore, Ulsamer Collegium, Siegfried Behrend, Siegfried Fink | 1982 | Compil. |
| Cantique Des Trois Enfants | Michael Praetorius, Chorale Audite Nova, Jean Sourisse | 1981 | Album |
| Complete Organ Music, Volume 2 | Michael Praetorius, Wolfgang Dallmann | 1980 | Album |
| Complete Organ Music, Volume I | Michael Praetorius, Wolfgang Dallmann | 1979 | Album |
| Motette BWV 226 / BWV 245 / BWV 243 | Thomanerchor - Johann Sebastian Bach / Michael Praetorius / Wilhelm Weismann | 1979 | Single |
| Terpsichore, 1612 | Michael Praetorius - Musica Aurea | 1979 | Album |
| The Recorder, Volume I | Claude Gervaise, Michael Praetorius, Johann Jakob Froberger, Samuel Scheidt, Cesar Bresgen, Heinz Lau, Karl Marx / Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Philipp Christian Schulze - Recorder Orchestra of the Folk Music School, Berlin-Neuköln, Rudolf Barthel, Linde Höffer Von Winterfeld, Jeannette Cramer-Chemin-Petit, Gerhard Kastner, Niklas Trüstedt | 1977 | Album |
| Musiche Di Danza Del Primo Seicento Europeo | Michael Praetorius, Gregorio Lambranzi, Anthony Holborne - The Praetorius Consort | 1976 | Album |
| Fastes Pour Cuivres & Orgue | Giovanni Gabrieli / Giovanni Gastoldi / Heinrich Schütz / Michael Praetorius / Samuel Scheidt, Quintette De Cuivres De Paris, Jean-Claude Raynaud | 1975 | Album |
| Festliche Chormusik | Roland de Lassus • Claudio Monteverdi • Michael Praetorius • Heinrich Schütz • Johann Sebastian Bach • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Ludwig van Beethoven • Franz Schubert • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy • Johannes Brahms • Friedrich Silcher • Anton Bruckner | 1975 | Album |
| Kollektiv Alte Musik | Michael Praetorius, Girolamo Frescobaldi, César Franck, Jan van Lublin, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Hans Leo Haßler, Johann Jakob Froberger, Adam Gumpelzhaimer | 1975 | Album |
| Dances From Terpsichore / Motets From Musae Sionae | Michael Praetorius : The Early Music Consort Of London, David Munrow | 1974 | Album |
| Südwestdeutsche Kammersolisten (1) | Michael Praetorius, Johann Friedrich Fasch, Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Jacques-Christophe Naudot, Südwestdeutsche Kammersolisten | 1973 | Album |
| Terpsichore | Michael Praetorius / Ricercare-Ensemble Für Alte Musik, Zürich | 1973 | Album |
| Weihnachtliche Chormusik | Michael Praetorius, Thomanerchor, Capella Fidicinia, Erhard Mauersberger | 1971 | Album |
| Michael Praetorius - Instrumentalsätze Und Chorwerke. Eine Auswahl zum Jubilaümsjahr 1971. | Michael Praetorius, Kammermusikkreis Ferdinand Conrad, Ehrenfelder Kinderchor, Frankfurter Bach-Chor, Niedersächsischer Singkreis, Norddeutscher Singkreis | 1971 | Album |
| Filhamonins Brassensemble Stockholm | Filharmonins Brassensemble, Johann Pezel, Michael Praetorius, Béla Bartók, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Stig Gustav Schönberg, Vagn Holmboe, Willy Schneider | 1970 | Album |
| Terpsichore (Tänze Des Frühbarock) | Michael Praetorius • Melchior Franck • Valentin Haussmann • Johann Hermann Schein | 1969 | Compil. |
| Weihnachtskonzerte | Michael Praetorius - Wilhelm Ehmann - Westfälische Kantorei | 1968 | Album |
| Christmas Music / Dances From "Terpsichore" / Two Suites From "Banchetto Musicale" | Michael Praetorius / Johann Hermann Schein - Ferdinand Conrad Instrumental Ensemble / Niedersächsischer Singkreis / Willi Träder | 1966 | Album |
| Orgelmusik Der Schütz-Zeit | Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Scheidemann, Matthias Weckmann, Dieterich Buxtehude, Christian Ritter, Michael Praetorius, Johann Lorentz / Helmut Tramnitz | 1962 | Album |
| Daentze Aus "Terpsichore" ‧ Daentze Und Galliarden ‧ 3 Suiten Aus "Banchetto Musicale" | Michael Praetorius ‧ Erasmus Widmann ‧ Johann Hermann Schein - Collegium Terpsichore | 1960 | Album |
| Motets For Double Chorus, Brass, And Organ | Michael Praetorius, Johann Christoph Bach, Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz | 1959 | Album |
| 7 Weihnachtslieder | Michael Praetorius, Dresdner Kreuzchor, Rudolf Mauersberger | 1958 | Single |
| Geistliche Tricinien / Weltliche Zweigesänge | Michael Praetorius / Georg Rhaw | 1957 | Album |
| Chant Spirituel / Motet / Choral | Michael Praetorius, Hans Leo Haßler | 1938 | Album |
| Organ Music | Harry Grodberg Plays : Pérotin, Tomás de Santa María, Heinrich Isaac, Michael Praetorius, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Abraham van den Kerckhoven, Arcangelo Corelli, Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Pachelbel, Matthias van den Gheyn, John Stanley | Album | |
| Kassel - Am Hofe Des Landgrafen | Moritz, Landgrave Of Hesse, Christopher Demantius, John Dowland, Heinrich Schütz, Michael Praetorius | Album | |
| An Old World Christmas - Holiday Favorites From Europe | Franz Gruber, Caspar Othmayr, Jacob Praetorius, Johannes Eccard, Samuel Scheidt, Michael Praetorius, Johann Sebastian Bach, Leonhart Schröter, Georg Friedrich Händel | Compil. | |
| Orgelwerke | Michael Praetorius | Album | |
| Lobsinget Dem Herrn (Chorwerke von:) | Johann Hermann Schein - Heinrich Hartmann - Johann Ludwig Bach - Gallus Dressler - Michael Praetorius - Andrea Gabrieli, Dortmunder Kantorei Leitung: Gerhard Trubel | Album | |
| Festliche Musik Aus St. Maternus - Chor Und Orchester Der Kantorei St. Maternus | Georg Friedrich Händel, Eberhard Schneider, Michael Praetorius, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Dieterich Buxtehude | Album | |
| Kerstmis Beroemde Koorwerken En Concerten | Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jakub Jan Ryba, Marc Antoine Charpentier, Jeremiah Clarke, Michael Praetorius, Antonio Vivaldi | Compil. | |
| Intraden Zu Sechs Stimmen / Suite Zu Vier Stimmen | Hans Leo Haßler, Michael Praetorius | Single | |
| Loué Soit Dieu (I) | Choeur évangélique de Lausanne / Mikołaj Gomółka, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz, Johann Sebastian Bach, William Tanzur, Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jean Binet, Bernard Reichel, Emile Henchoz | Album |
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