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Johann Hermann Schein was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1616 to 1630. [1]: 15 He composed the motet possibly for the funeral of Maria Magdelena von Claußbruch in 1628; [2]: 40 she was buried on 2 April that year and the sermon was given to the psalm text, [2]: 321 verses 2–4 of Psalm 84 in Martin Luther's translation of the Bible into German. [3]
Various lost arrangements by Brahms of other composers' works see [6] for list A. 3/14-19: Various sketches and sketchbooks see [6] for list A. 5a/1-3: Various collections of folk songs, notated by Brahms see [6] for list A. 5a/4-21: Various transcripts of other composers' works, notated by Brahms see [6] for list A. 5b/1-3: Various autograph ...
Fünf Gesänge (Five songs), Op. 104, is a song cycle of five part songs for mixed choir a cappella by Johannes Brahms. Composed in 1888 when Brahms was a 55-year-old bachelor, the five songs reflect an intensely nostalgic and even tragic mood. Brahms has chosen texts which centre on lost youth, summer turning into fall and, ultimately, man's ...
Geistliches Lied (English: "Sacred Song" or "Spiritual Song"), Op. 30, by Johannes Brahms is an 1856 work for four-part mixed chorus accompanied by organ or piano.The composition is in the form of a double canon set to text by Paul Flemming.
SATB is an initialism that describes the scoring of compositions for choirs or consorts of instruments. The initials are for the voice types : S, soprano , A, alto , T, tenor and B, bass . It can also describe a choir, collectively for SATB music.
To some, Brahms revived chamber music. [5] Liebeslieder exemplifies this in both Op. 52 and Brahms' later arrangement for four-hand piano, Op. 52a, written and premiered in 1874. [ 5 ] Other arrangements of the Liebeslieder Waltzes appear in 1870 when Brahms was pressured by Ernst Rudorff to create an orchestral arrangement, which he premiered ...
While Brahms was hesitant to break the desperation and ultimate futility of the second movement by bringing a blissful return to the first, some see Brahms's return to the orchestral prelude as "a desire on the part of the composer to relieve the gloom of the concluding idea of the text by shedding a ray of light over the whole, and leaving a ...
Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs), Op. 121, is a cycle of four songs for bass and piano by Johannes Brahms. As in his Ein deutsches Requiem , the texts are compiled from the Luther Bible . Three songs deal with death and the transience of life, while the fourth has an outlook of faith, hope and charity .