ABSTRACT
By the seventeenth century the city of Hamburg had already developed a favourable situation in the world of trade which led to a degree of affluence and the possibility of a thriving cultural life. The achievements of the patrician culture of the Hansa city are referred to by Gervinus, for example, as a Golden Age of intellectual education, even in the seventeenth century before the better-known developments of the eighteenth. In 1646 Heinrich Werner in Hamburg published Rist's Poetischer Schauplatz, a collection of 175 items including long works for weddings, of which 34 are strophic songs, none with music. Hinton Thomas shows how the music is subservient to the demands of Rist's simple metrical patterns. Shortly after the publication of Rist's Musa Teutonica in 1634 there appeared a collection by another North German, Zacharias Lund. Fischer as early as 1910 and Kretzschmar in 1911 pointed out Voigtlander's connections with Saxony.
