"It is probably safe to say that Schimmelpfennig, amongst the composers at the court of Kassel, [Heinrich] Schütz included, was the most radical renovator. Just because he did not study by [Giovanni] Gabrieli, he had sympathies for the Florentine Camerata, esp. the madrigals of [Giulio] Caccini." (Clytus Gottwald, Manuscripta musica, p.827; translated)
