Biography

1585	Heinrich Schütz is born on October 8 in Köstritz, his name entered in the regional baptismal record on October 9
1586	Andrea Gabrieli dies Johann Hermann Schein born
1587	Samuel Scheidt born
1590	Christoph Schütz takes over the inn "Zum goldenen Ring" in Weißenfels. The family moves to Weißenfels.
1598	Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel discovers Heinrich Schütz in Weißenfels
1599	Heinrich Schütz goes to Kassel: Training as choirboy and education at the court school "Mauritianum"
1600	Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic in Rome
1607	First performance Monteverdi's opera "L'Orfeo" in Mantua
1608	Schütz studies law in Marburg
1609	Schütz receives a stipend from Moritz of Hessen to travel to Italy for music studies with Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice
1610	Galileo Galilei demonstrates in Venice a newly designed telescope which permits the detailed observation of the heavens
1611	Opus 1: "Italienische Madrigale" SWV 1 - 19
1612	Giovanni Gabrieli dies Matthias becomes Holy Roman Emperor
1613	Return to Kassel and Weißenfels Schütz, as second court organist, accompanies the Landgrave to Dresden
1614	Beginning of the dispute over Schütz between Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony and Landgrave Moritz of Hessen
1617	Final move to Dresden Appointment to Hofkapellmeister Sumptuous festival music by Schütz on the occasion of the Imperial visit to Dresden and for the centenary celebrations of the Reformation
1618	Schütz, Samuel Scheidt and Michael Praetorius: Reorganization of the cathedral music in Magdeburg Beginning of the Thirty Years War
1619	Schütz marries Magdalena Wildeck Opus 2: "Psalmen Davids" SWV 22 - 47
1621	Birth of Schütz's daughter, Anna Justina Travel to Breslau on the occasion of the Silesian estates's tribute to Johann Georg "Syncharma Musicum" SWV 49
1623	Opus 3: "Auferstehungshistorie" SWV 50 Birth of Schütz's daughter, Euphrosyne
1624	Martin Opitz: "Das Buch von der deutschen Poeterey"
1625	Opus 4: "Cantiones sacrae" SWV 53 - 93 Death of Schütz's wife, Magdalena
1627	Concerto: "Da pacem, Domine" SWV 465, for the electoral congress in Mühlhausen Premiere performance of the opera "Dafne", set to the text by Opitz, in Torgau
after 1627	Easter Dialogue: "Dialogo per la Pascua" SWV 443
1628	Opus 5: "Becker Psalter I" SWV 97a - 256a Second Italian tour: experiences the latest Italian styles (Monteverdi)
1629	Opus 6: "Symphoniae sacrae I" SWV 257 - 276
1631	Death of Schütz's father Funeral motet for Schütz's friend, Johann Hermann Schein: "Das ist je gewißlich wahr" SWV 277
1633	Travel to Copenhagen - named Danish Court Kapellmeister
1635	Return to Dresden - death of Schütz's mother Heinrich Posthumus Reuß dies
1636	Opus 7: "Musikalische Exequien" SWV 279 - 281 for the funeral of Heinrich Posthumus Reuß Opus 8: "Kleine geistliche Konzerte I" SWV 282 - 305
1638	Schütz's daughter, Anna Justina, dies
1639	Opus 9: "Kleine Geistliche Konzerte II" SWV 306 - 337 Martin Opitz dies
1641	Proposals for the reorganization of the Dresden court chapel
1642	Travel to Copenhagen
1643	Claudio Monteverdi dies
1645	Return to Dresden - first petition to be allowed to enter retirement
1647	Opus 10: "Symphoniae sacrae II" (SWV 341 - 367) Performances at the Weimar court
1648	Opus 11: "Geistliche Chormusik" SWV 368 - 397 Peace of Westphalia
1650	Opus 12: "Symphoniae sacrae III" SWV 398 - 418
1651	Autobiographical memoire with petition to be permitted to retire
1655	Death of Schütz's daughter, Euphrosyne Schütz becomes Wolfenbüttel's "ex officio" Court Kapellmeister
1656	Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony dies
1657	Johann Georg II grants Schütz general retirement and names him Senior Kapellmeister Retirement in Weißenfels Opus 13: "Zwölf geistliche Gesänge" SWV 420 - 431
1661	Opus 14: "Becker Psalter II" SWV 97 - 256
1663	Reorganization of the court music in Zeitz
1664	"Weihnachtshistorie" SWV 435
1666	"Lukas-Passion" SWV 480, "Johannes-Passion" SWV 481, "Matthäus-Passion" SWV 479.
1671	"Schwanengesang": 119. Psalm SWV 482 - 492, 100. Psalm SWV 493 and a German Magnificat SWV 494
1672	Schütz dies in Dresden on November 6 at the age of 87