The Music Plays On — Praetorius Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen

Michael Praetorius

The German composer, Michael Praetorius, is an incredibly important figure in the understanding and development of 17th century music. Not only because of the voluminous amount of music that he composed over the course of his forty-nine years, but because of the three volume treatise, Syntagma Musicum, that he wrote about music and music-making between 1614–1620. In fact, these three…