For many hundreds of years, the only form of music found in Germany was found in churches. It was the Latin chants of the clergy, monks, and nuns (Ian Roberts, 88). In the wake of the Martin Luther and the reformation of the church in the 16th century, the new liturgy of Protestantism made way for different forms of church singing. No longer were hymns sung in Latin, but instead Germans began singing and composing in German and gave rise eventually to the German Cantatas and oratorios (Barry Turner, 39).

Over the next century the Baroque style and movement was started. One of baroque's most well

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