Mixed choir (SATB) and Generalbass (organ, double bass, cello and bassoon)

SKU: HL.49019927

Sleepers Wake. Composed by Carl Friedrich Zelter. Edited by Hermann Max. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Choral. Softcover. 12 pages. Schott Music #ED21773-01. Published by Schott Music (HL.49019927).

ISBN 9790001196956. German.

With Carl Friedrich Zelter's motet Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Hermann Max, editor of the Choral Treasury series, has uncovered a real treasure. The three-verse text of the motet for mixed choir (SATB) and basso continuo was written by Friedrich Gottlob Klopstock who kept close to the Advent song of the same name by Philipp Nicolai. During Zelter's lifetime, the motet enjoyed great popularity. And quite rightly so: For the music teacher and friend of Goethe turned out to be a composer with an extraordinary sense of tone. An introductory choral movement is followed by a captivating bass aria which can be optionally sung by all basses of the choir. The piece culminates in an elaborate virtuoso fugue with an interwoven cantus firmus in the bass. A demanding, yet highly rewarding rarity in church music!

Mixed choir (SATB) and Generalbass (organ, double bass, cello and bassoon)

SKU: HL.49044087

Sleepers Wake. Composed by Carl Friedrich Zelter. Edited by Hermann Max. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Softcover. 12 pages. Schott Music #ED21773-10. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044087).

ISBN 9790001196963. German.

With Carl Friedrich Zelter's motet Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Hermann Max, editor of the Choral Treasury series, has uncovered a real treasure. The three-verse text of the motet for mixed choir (SATB) and basso continuo was written by Friedrich Gottlob Klopstock who kept close to the Advent song of the same name by Philipp Nicolai. During Zelter's lifetime, the motet enjoyed great popularity. And quite rightly so: For the music teacher and friend of Goethe turned out to be a composer with an extraordinary sense of tone. An introductory choral movement is followed by a captivating bass aria which can be optionally sung by all basses of the choir. The piece culminates in an elaborate virtuoso fugue with an interwoven cantus firmus in the bass. A demanding, yet highly rewarding rarity in church music!

Mixed choir (SATB/SATB) a cappella

SKU: HL.49019925

Motet. Composed by Carl Friedrich Zelter. Edited by Hermann Max. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Choral. Softcover. 24 pages. Schott Music #ED21771. Published by Schott Music (HL.49019925).

ISBN 9790001196185. German.

Eine wertvolle Bereicherung fur das Repertoire geistlicher A-cappella-Chormusik stellt Carl Friedrich Zelters Motette Der Mensch lebt und bestehet nur eine kleine Zeit dar. Die in der Reihe 'Schatze der Chormusik' erschienene Motette fur achtstimmigen Doppelchor (SATB/SATB) wurde schon zu Lebzeiten hoch gelobt: 'Das Ganze zerfallt in drei Teile. Der erste stellt dar: die Hinfalligkeit des Menschen und die Verganglichkeit aller Welt.' Es folgt ein 'wahres Meisterstuck von musikalischer Architektonik, eine achtstimmige Fuge, wie sie nach Johann Sebastian Bach und Fasch selten in solcher Reinheit und Kunst hervorgegangen sein durfte. Hierauf folgt ein herrlicher Triumphgesang, der gewaltig mit sich fortreisst, so dass die Horer selbst mit einstimmen mochten.' - Ein in jeder Beziehung lohnendes Werk also, das fur ambitionierte Laienchore problemlos einzustudieren sein durfte.

By Carl Friedrich Zelter. Arranged by Johann Walter Scharf. For Mixed voice choir (SATB). Published by Tonos (German import).

SATB choir

SKU: CA.7010046

Composed by Carl Friedrich Zelter. Lent and Passiontide. German title: Bekennen will ich dich, o Herr. Full score. Op. 46. 2 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 70.100/46. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.7010046).

ISBN 9790007228637. Key: C major. Language: German.

Score available separately - see item CA.7010000.