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Michael Praetorius

real name Michael Schultze

Michael Praetorius is credited on 3,072 releases across 646 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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3,072

Credits

646

Albums

8

Decades active

66

In collections

Biography

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German composer, organist and music theorist, born circa 15th February 1571, Creuzburg, Free State Thuringia, today Germany, died 15th February 1621, Wolfenbüttel.
He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns.
He is also the author of liturgical music performances & practices - such as his three-volume treatise 'Syntagma Musicum', published between 1614 & 1620.
Praetorius is a Latinized form of his family name of Schultze, adopted from his latter work and familiarity with the Venetian influences in his solo-voice, polychoral, and instrumental compositions.

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Credited work

3,072 releases · 646 albums · active 1951–2025

  • Performance · 4,418
  • Other credits · 195
  • Production · 1

Studios: Kostel Matky Boží Před Týnem · Studio Lukaskirche, Dresden · Henry Wood Hall, London · Abbey Road Studios

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Praetorius
  • Die Wiener Sängerknaben
  • Wiener Sängerknaben
  • The Cambridge Buskers
  • Heinrich Schütz
  • David Munrow
  • Dresdner Kreuzchor

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