A Heinrich Schütz Reader: Letters and Documents in TranslationHeinrich Schtz (1585 1672) was the most important and influential German composer of the seventeenth century. Director of music at the electoral Saxon court in Dresden, he was lauded by his German contemporaries as the father of our modern music, as the Orpheus of our time. Yet despite the esteem in which his music is still held today, Schtz himself and the rich cultural environment in which he lived continue to be little known or understood beyond