January 20 - Johann Hermann Schein (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for January 20th are here: David Tudor (2020), Walter Piston (2021), and Yvonne Loriod (2022)

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Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer and was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same Position

Did J. S. Bach, the great successor

  Of Johann Heinrich Schein,

See his scores and mutter “yes sir!

  I wish that these were mine?”

Or was such stuff so out of date,

   Forgotten and benign,

He never had to contemplate

   Herr Thomaskantor Schein?

 

 

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