Abstract EN:

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, italian religious music was widespread throuhout all german speaking countries, notably thanks the numerous anthologies published in strasbourg, who occupies next to frankfurt, a central place in this process of circulation and reception. The study of printed music, as well as that was played and sung in strasbourg makes up the starting point of this thesis. The exploitation of numerous previously unpublished archive documents allowed, in the first volume, a fondation to be laid of a history of religious music in strasbourg and allowed a contribution to be mad to music history in the rhineland countries. The second volume will be devoted to the study of the role played by strasbourg, in the middle of protestant cities in the rhineland country and of catholic cities in alsace. It will also attempt to show the importance of italian models in the dialogue between protestant and catholic music, as well as to describe (with the help of sebastien de brossard's testimony) the evolution of their reception troughout the seventeenth century.