Crato Bütner (1616-1679)
- TE DEUM LAUDAMUS: ... 12. Vocibus & 8. Instrumentis binisq;
Tubis & Tympano, | unà cum | BASSO CONTINUO PRO ORGANO ... | ANNO M
DC LXII. (1662)
Performers: Cappella Gedanensis; Alina Kowalska-Pinczak (Conductor)
Further info: Te Deum Laudamus
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German composer and organist. Nothing is know of his early years. From
1650 he was organist of St Saviour, on the outskirts of Danzig. He soon
became Kantor and director of music at St Catherine; according to
Hermann Rauschning he was appointed in 1652, though he still described
himself as organist of St Saviour in publications up to 1654. In both
parishes he was required to teach in schools, and as director of music
at St Catherine he could rely on the services on average of eight
instrumentalists and six singers. It was to his directorship that the
church owed its prominent position in the musical life of Danzig.
Evidence of Bütner's activities and of the extensive and varied
cultivation of music in the Danzig of his day was afforded by a
collection of printed music, consisting of some 150 pieces, both
instrumental and vocal, by Italian, Polish and German composers and
including over 50 sacred vocal works by Bütner himself. His numerous
surviving works are very varied both in their forms and in the forces
for which they are scored, some of the latter being substantial. Most of
them are Lutheran settings of German words which introduced the sacred
concerto to Danzig. Typical features of his music include short-winded
motivic writing, simple harmony, a quick succession of short, compressed
sections and the setting off against each other of homophonic groups of
voices. The style of his music, even if it is somewhat inexpressive,
was something quite new in Danzig.
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