What, then, is the life of this little Latin teacher in 1600 in a famous university town in northern Germany, at a time when the humanist Renaissance is living its last hours of glory? Life of a man in a world of curiosities, among herring and turtle doves, dust and pipe organ, hops and golden branch, between Martin Luther and Orpheus, bales of salt and Latin worms, small white flowers and rock of Sisyphus, roses and golden threads. Life of a man passionate about harmony, words, sounds, rhythm, voice, texts - life of a whole man inhabited by the love of music and Muses - and this love generates a artwork.
Thus is born the little legend, that of the obscure professor whose desires and reveries, works and days, often have the glittering and delicate brilliance of small pearls.