!!!Reformation
!!Joachim Fridericus Fritzius: ''Venite exultemus''

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Joachim Fridericus Fritzius (um 1550 in Brandenburg a.d. Havel - 1605
in Styria?) was a protestant and we unfortunately  nothing about his
early life nor what happened to him after the Counter-reformation began
to actively fight Protestantism in Styria. None of his compositions
other than two books of motets printed in Graz by  Widmanstetter in
1588 has survived. These are however clear evidence of a perhaps larger
Protestant role in music in Styria. What is surprising about these
works is that they are not only dedicated to the protestant nobility
but also to the Styrian abbots - in other words to the representatives
of both confessions. In addition, Fritzius makes textual concessions to
Catholicism. Obviously the Protestan composer was thinking more in
terms of economical factors than of religious covictions with this
apparent compromise.(Cf A. Gigler). (E. Stadler)                                      )


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caption='Joachim Fridericus Fritzius: Venite exultemus\\© Catkanei - Studio für Alte Musik, Graz. (Aufnahme: GM-Tonstudio-Musikverlag Dr. Werner Jauk, Graz)'}]



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