The 29-year-old Franz Schubert composed his German Mass (D 872) in 1826 at the request of Johann Philipp Neumann, who also wrote the text with the original title “Songs for the …
“[...] Send me a song or two to sing in autumn, or even better in summer or in spring, on the water or the meadow or the bridge, or in the forest or in the garden. [...]”, wrote …
In addition to his masses and the Requiem, Mozart wrote an abundance of smaller sacred choral works for the church. Misericordias Domini KV 222 (205a) was created at the beginning …
During her lifetime, Fanny Hensel was overshadowed by her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was three years her junior, and for a long time she was regarded merely as an …
This collection, created in 1888, is Johannes Brahms' last collection of secular choral songs. Originally for four-to-six parts, these sonorous choral works are striking for their …
The arrangements in this collection represent 80 per cent of Duruflé's entire a cappella œuvre, with three from the four Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens Op. 10 (1960) …
Few other works posed Brahms so many artistic and critical challenges as the Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Op. 54. The immediate spark of inspiration upon encountering …
Mozart's Requiem, his last and unfinished composition, is one of the most famous choral works in the classical repertoire, a masterpiece whose genesis in several respects is …
Die Schöpfung is not only a decisive high point in Joseph Haydn's career as a composer, but also marks a turning point in the history of the oratorio in general. On the threshold …
Inter natos mulierum (KV 72) is a setting of the offertory for the feast of St John the Baptist. It was written in Salzburg in May or June 1771 after the return of Mozart and his …
