V. Gigue - Music

Theodor Schwartzkopff Composer 1659-1732 . Of All The Composers Employed At The Court Of Württemberg-Stuttgart In The Early Modern Era Theodor Schwartzkopff Is Perhaps One Of The Least Well Known To Today’s Concert-Going Audiences. Yet In His Own Time He Appears To Have Enjoyed At Least Modest Recognition Judging By Johann Gottfried Walther’s Musicalisches Lexicon Leipzig 1732 In Which Schwartzkopff Was Described As Having Been »renowned As A Composer« Als Componist Berühmt Since The 1680s. Walther’s Account Was Informed At Least In Part By Schwartzkopff’s Inclusion In Wolfgang Caspar Printz’s List Of »More Recent And More Famous Composers And Musicians Of This Century« Neurere Und Berühmtere Componisten Und Musici Dieses Jahrhunderts Published In 1690. Furthermore These Positive Assessments Were Also Supported By The Württemberg Oberkapellmeister Johann Christoph Pez 1664-1716 Who Wrote In 1714 That His Colleague Schwartzkopff »composes Very Well« Componirt Sehr Wohl read less