Johann Hermann Schein

Schein was a German poet and musician who wrote numerous secular and sacred works for the voice. All of his secular vocal works were composed to texts of his own doing. Schein trained in the Dresden court and studied at Schulpforta and Leipzig. He was also the Kapellmeister at the court in Weimar, later becoming the Kantor of St. Thomas' in Leipzig. He composed approximately four hundred sacred works in five different volumes. The first was part of the "Opella nova" in 1618. It was primarily written as sacred concertos with continuo and was one of the earliest and most importa...