Organ - intermediate
SKU: HL.49045554
For Organ.
Composed by Enjott
Schneider. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Organ Large Works.
Classical. Softcover.
Composed 2016. 12 pages.
Duration 5'. Schott Music
#ED22806. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045554).
ISBN
9790001165884. UPC:
841886032262.
9.0x12.0x0.069
inches.
An
essential feature of
attitudes prevailing in
the days of Luther was
the ubiquitous concern
with death and dying,
assailed by plague, wars
and the never-ending
dangers of daily life.
The associated fears
sometimes escalated to
the grotesque, as in
paintings by Hieronymus
Bosch, and the 'dance of
death' was a popular
motif in those years.
Luther's chorale of 1524
In the very midst of life
/ we see death all around
us (the Erfurt
Enchiridion) is based on
the Gregorian Media vita
in morte sumus that
emerged in France in
about 750, evoking
thoughts of mortality in
its outline form.