[3] As a historical figure, Schmitt has largely been ignored by the Dutch, despite his pioneering role in the realisation of the country's first purpose-built concert hall, the Felix Meritis.
Dutch-based Australian conductor Simon Murphy has been responsible for reintroducing Schmitt's music to the world in performance, through broadcasts, on disc and in new editions.
Together with The Hague's Baroque Orchestra, The New Dutch Academy, conductor Simon Murphy has made the world-première recordings of Schmitt's early symphonic and chamber music (PENTATONE, 2006).
Since then, Murphy has further championed Schmitt's orchestral works including in concerts at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and for the Holland Festival of Early Music Utrecht.
The Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble with soloists Heike Heilmann, Franz Vitzthum, Georg Poplutz and Markus Flaig, conducted by Arno Paduch, performed the work in the church for which it was composed and was not heard since 1803, combined with psalms and a Te Deum by Antonio Caldara.