Balthasar Resinarius

After Resinarius' death, the Renaissance humanist Georg Hansch, who lived in Leipa, published several commemorative publications ("Epitaphs") in memory of him; these present him as a kind and friendly, also helpful and with a beautiful voice talented person.

In particular, Hansch repeatedly praises his striking, outstanding gift as a speaker and his theological scholarship and persuasiveness – with which he had won many followers for the Protestant teaching.

These pieces by the master found a wide distribution due to the publication of Georg Rhau in relevant manuscripts of the 16th century.

The works of Resinarius correspond in content and composition in an excellent way to the efforts to provide music for the services of the early Lutheran church.

[3] The composer's stylistic means are rather conservative: a clear and concise declamation oriented to the cantus firmus, a rhythmic and melodic balance, a frequently encountered parallel course of the voices among themselves and the absence of any articial counterpoint.

[4] The works of Resinarius are exclusively vocal music and are based, with one exception, on publications by Georg Rhau in Wittenberg: