SSA vocal soli, SSA
choir, piano
SKU:
CA.5003203
Cantata
for children.
Composed by Josef Gabriel
Rheinberger. Edited by
Barbara Mohn. This
edition: Paperbound.
German title: Das
Tochterlein des Jairus.
Sacred vocal music,
Cantatas. Vocal score.
Op. 32. 24 pages. Carus
Verlag #CV 50.032/03.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.5003203).
ISBN
9790007140090. Language:
German. Text: Bonn,
Franz. Text: Franz
Bonn.
Immediately
following his first opera
Rheinberger composed a
small dramatic cantata
for children's voices in
1863. It is based on a
story from the Gospel of
St. Mark, arranged as a
rhymed libretto with
various roles by Franz
Bonn (1830-1854). Among
the highpoints of the
cantata are a scene of
awakening fashioned as a
choral recitative with an
expressive piano part and
a large final chorus
Preist laut den Herr.
Both of these helped to
make the cantata very
popular in Rheinberger's
days with boys' and
girls' choirs.
Rheinberger later
arranged it with an
accompaniment by a small
orchestra. Score
available separately -
see item CA.5003200.