International Heinrich Schütz Prize 2022
In the festive year Schütz22 - "because I live" on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the composer's death, the publishers Bärenreiter (Kassel) and Carus (Stuttgart) will be awarded the Silver Medal of Honor, which has been presented annually since 2018 as part of the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival.
Since 1955, Bärenreiter-Verlag has published the volumes of the New edition of the complete works by Heinrich Schütz as a source-critical edition for both scholarly and practical use. The editions published by Bärenreiter since 1979 Contactor yearbooks in turn provide an important forum for the scholarly exploration of Schütz's multifaceted oeuvre. And in the Schütz2022 anniversary year, we can look forward to the publication of long-suffering desiderata: a few months ago, Walter Werbeck published the Contactor manual and until the end of this year, also published by Bärenreiter-Verlag, the book edited by Werner Breig (winner of the 2021 Heinrich Schütz Prize) will be published. Schütz catalog raisonné.
At the end of the 1960s, Günter Graulich started a scholarly-critical edition of Schütz's works at Carus-Verlag. The Stuttgart edition of Schütz has been published since 1971 and has always been a pioneer in the use of modern editing techniques, while maintaining a high degree of continuity in the music. The bilingual individual editions published in parallel by Carus-Verlag and the performance material for (almost) all pieces were particularly useful in practice. On the basis of this edition, a Schütz complete recording by the Dresden Chamber Choir under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann (winner of the 2018 Heinrich Schütz Prize).
The award ceremony will take place as part of the final concert of the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival on Sunday, October 16, 2022, at Hartenfels Castle in Torgau.
