The Weser region experienced a cultural flourishing after 1553, with courts like Kassel, Wolfenbüttel, Bückeburg, and Brake operating at a European cultural level.
Compositional Technique
Moritz of Hesse-Kassel had a predilection for writing polychoral pieces, varying the scoring to produce contrasts between high and low choruses or employing balanced homogeneous ensembles.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Moritz of Hesse-Kassel's wide-ranging interests in art and science were so immense that they almost led to the bankruptcy of his realm.
Performer Biography
WESER-RENAISSANCE Bremen is an internationally renowned ensemble specializing in 16th and 17th-century music, focusing on repertoire from Josquin Desprez to Dieterich Buxtehude.
Composer Biography
Moritz the Learned, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, was a Renaissance ideal, excelling as a natural scientist, poet, architect, musician, and composer.
Composer Biography
Moritz of Hesse-Kassel founded the regional library in Kassel in 1580 and was an enthusiastic draughtsman, dedicating himself to his many castles and palaces.
Composition History
Moritz of Hesse-Kassel's early sacred works are Lutheran, but his later oeuvre reflects his public embrace of Calvinism in 1605.
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