Hammerschmidt wrote music in the form of the Chorale Monody, an adaptation of the early Italian Baroque form. He represents the second generation of composers who distilled a native German Baroque tradition out of forms and styles imported from Italy.
Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German Bohemian composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was one of the most significant and popular composers of sacred music in Germany in the middle 17th century. Hammerschmidt wrote music according to the strict Protestant canon. He wrote motets, concertos and arias, and almost all of his output is sacred vocal music in the concertato style.
