Schott Musik

'Sonnengesang' [Canticle of the Sun] is part of world literature and has had a decisive influence on Italian poetry. It is considered to be the 'lullaby of the Italian language'. The musical setting o...

Ausdrucksvolles Abendlied nach einem Text vom Dichter Christian Morgenstern. Das mässige Tempo und die Aufeinanderschichtung von zarten Dissonanzen sorgen für die wunderbare Traumatmosphäre des Liedes...

The lied setting was composed for the Female Choir of Glier Institute of Music Kiev, Ukraine in 2011. All seven verses of the text by Matthias Claudius were set to music, and this is why the composer...

The a cappella choral setting Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich for four-part women's choir written by the 1553-born composer Johannes Eccard from Mühlhausen in Thuringia is, indeed, a real pleasure. T...

With his musical setting Nächtlicher Himmel based on words from a letter by Vincent van Gogh, Rolf Rudin ventures into downright impressionist terrain. Just as the famous painter creates literary imag...

Heinrich Poos is not the first composer inspired by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's poem 'Die Auferstehung', as even Gustav Mahler had already used these verses in the fifth movement of his Second Symp...

A great final piece or encore, this arrangement of the popular German lullaby, sung by Heinz Rühmann in the film 'Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne', is set for upper voices and is certain to leave the aud...

Raimund Wippermann - Komponist und Leiter des Mädchenchores am Essener Dom - bearbeitete zwei bekannte Wiegenlieder (Guten Abend, gut' Nacht, Die Blümelein sie schlafen) für Frauen- und Mädchenchor zu...

'I like writing singable and text-oriented works. As one critic once wrote, the pieces often are placed between archaic church mode and modern music and oriented by the rhythm of language. I like usin...

Der Ungenannten, Die Nonne, Die Kapelle, Winterreise und Abendtanz vertonte der junge Komponist für drei- bis vierstimmigen Frauenchor. Die Stücke bestechen durch ihre genaue Textausdeutung, die den C...

A work for male chamber choir and violin which interact with each other and pass through stages ('Stufen') of life together. Although the demanding violin part is supported by the choir, both are equa...

Never before has the well-known children's song Es klappert die Mühle from the 19th century, based on a text by Ernst Anschütz (1824), been heard as lively and groovy as here. Alwin Michael Schronen,...

Männerchor (TTBB) und Kinderchor (SS)