page_title: Magnificat (Schütz)
section_title: SWV 344
hierarchical_section_title: Magnificat (Schütz) / SWV 344
caption_attribution_description: Depicted person: Heinrich Schütz
context_page_description: Heinrich Schütz composed four extant settings of the Magnificat or Song of Mary, one of the three New Testament canticles. He set one in Latin and three in German. In the Schütz-Werke-Verzeichnis, the compositions have the numbers 344, 426, 468 and 494. The settings on the German text are all part of larger groups of works. They are settings of Martin Luther's German Magnificat, Meine Seele erhebt den Herren. Schütz wrote the compositions for different forces and occasions.
context_section_description: Schütz composed Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 344, in 1643 as part of Symphoniae sacrae II for soprano, two unspecified instruments and basso continuo.
caption: Heinrich Schütz in 1627
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