A baker’s son, Schulz at­tend­ed the La­tein­schul­en in Lü­ne­berg, and stu­died the or­gan. Af­ter mov­ing to Ber­lin in 1768, he be­came teach­er and ac­comp­a­nist to Pol­ish prin­cess Saphieha Woiwodin von Smo­len­sky; they toured ex­ten­sive­ly through Europe. He lat­er be­gan writ­ing op­era, his first be­ing Cla­ris­sa in 1785. The next year, he be­came mu­sic­al di­rect­or of the Ber­lin French the­a­ter. In 1786, he was ap­point­ed Hof­ka­pell­meist­er in Rheins­burg. Two years lat­er, he held the same post in Co­pen­hag­en. He remained in the Copenhagen office 18 years, being brought to an end by a breakdown of his health af­ter trying to save the music library at Copenhagen during a fire. His health further suffered from the effects of a shipwreck he was the victim of in 1796. Schulz’ works in­clude:

• Die wahren Grund­sätze zum Ge­brauche der Har­mo­nie, 1773
• Clarissa, oder Das un­be­kannte Dienst­mäd­chen, 1775
• Gesänge am Cla­vier, 1779
• Lied­er in Volklston, 1782
• Entwurf einer neu­en und leicht­ver­ständ­lich­en Mu­sik­tab­la­tur, 1786
• Über den Chor­al und die ält­ere Li­ter­a­tur des­sel­ben

Sources

Music

1. O Come, Little Children
2. Paedia
3. Warum Sind die Thränen
4. Wir Pflügen