Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) was one of the most versatile, wide-ranging, and prolific German composers of the seventeenth century, also important as a theorist, and the most often quoted and excerpted writer on performance practice.
2021 marks the four hundredth anniversary of this Lutheran musician's death and the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth.
Yet until now, no biography of this multitalented and fascinating man has been made available in English.
This translation.