This volume brings together four funeral songs composed by the Coburg court music director Melchior Franck (c. 1579-1639) for the funerals of his employers. These are the brothers Johann Casimir of Saxe-Coburg (1564-1633) and Johann Ernst of Saxe-Eisenach (1566-1638) from the Ernestine line of the House of Wettingen. [...]

The two pairs of works from 1634 (nos. I and II) and 1639 (nos. III and IV) presented here have a strikingly similar contrasting layout. They each contain a representative ...