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Johann Theile

German composer

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German opera

In opera: Early opera in Germany and Austria
…a pupil of Heinrich Schütz, Johann Theile. One of them, Adam und Eva, inaugurated Germany’s first public opera house, in Hamburg, in 1678. During the mid-18th century the term singspiel came to be reserved for what the English called ballad opera and what the French called opéra comique: light, usually…
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Passion music

In Passion music
…into the German Passions by Johann Theile and Johann Kuhnau. The three unaccompanied Passions by the celebrated composer Heinrich Schütz return to the more austere type.
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