Heinrich-Schütz-Haus, Renaissance composer museum in Weißenfels, Germany.
The Heinrich Schütz House is a Renaissance building from 1552 in Weißenfels where the famous composer lived starting in 1651. The house has been converted into a museum and displays rooms, furnishings, and documents from this period of his later years.
The composer purchased the house in 1651 and spent his final 20 years there, creating some of his most significant late works. The Renaissance structure of the building had already stood for more than a hundred years by that time.
Heinrich Schütz was one of the most important composers of his era, and the house shows how he lived and worked in Weißenfels as an older man. You see here handwritten musical scores and personal objects that give a sense of his daily life.
The museum offers seating areas in several places throughout the house where you can listen to audio narratives about different phases of Schütz's life. It makes sense to set aside adequate time for exploring the rooms and taking in the content at a relaxed pace.
In the attic of the house, a handwritten musical manuscript by Schütz was discovered during restoration, providing clues to his working methods. This fragment shows how the aging master continued to develop his compositions near the end of his life.
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