TTBB Choir - Grade 3
SKU: HL.14018993
Composed by Bernhard
Lewkovitch. Music Sales
America. Motet. Octavo.
Composed 2002. 8 pages.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#WH27672. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14018993).
ISBN
9788759850978.
7.25x10.25x0.061 inches.
Latin.
This set of
three motets for
unaccompanied male choir
sets the Latin words for
the De Profundis, Ave
Maria and Laudate and
manifests Lewkovitch's
fascination both with
chant and with
modality.Contemporary
Danish composer,
conductor and Organist
Bernhard Lewkovitch has
followed a rare path
among modern composers.
From 1947 he was Organist
at St Ansgars Kirches and
later remained connected
with the Catholic Church
by working as an
Organist. Clearly he is
inspired by the Catholic
liturgy and sees his
great output of
ecclesiastical music as a
vocation and a great
responsibility. For many
years his work by
inspired by Gregorian
chant and was composed in
church modes, then inthe
mid 1950's he began to
expand into modern
bitonality and
polytonality, culminating
in Il cantico delle
creature in 1962/3 in
which there was no
conventional notation and
no fixed pitch. After
that, Lewkovitch had
somewhat of a hiatus,
later returning again to
the inspirations of the
mid1950's.