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Article: Cross, Sword and Lyre: Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Hamburg, 1619-1637.
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- December 1, 1996
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In Cross, Sword and Lyre, Steven Saunders provides a concise summary of the sacred music at the court of Ferdinand II, following his election as Holy Roman Emperor in 1619, providing a useful continuation to Hellmut Federhofer's Musikpflege und Musiker am Grazer Habsburgerhof der Erzherzoge Karl und Ferdinand von Innerosterreich (1564-1619) (Mainz: Schott, 1967). Based upon a detailed knowledge of the music and the multitude of Habsburg archival documents from the period, Saunders is able to correct many misconceptions and inaccuracies in former discussions of this period.
Rather than a study limited to an overview of the life and sacred music of the two chapel ...