Sacred Odes and Songs (Gellert) AL27907 Capriccio (1902/03)

Capriccio (1902/03)

many manuscripts reflect the previous popularity and wide circulation of this music

confessional Baroque poetry of Erdmann Neumeister deals with trust in God and merges into thoughts about death

in the court church

It is hard to imagine that Chopin was only 15 when his Opus 1

Sacred Odes and Songs (Gellert) AL27907 Capriccio (1902/03)For the last twenty years of his life Carl Phillipp Emanuel held the important position for sacred music in Hamburg as Kantor and Music Director of the city's main churches. We owe to these years in Hamburg such significant, indeed epochal works as the double choir Heilig and the great oratorios Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu and Die Israeliten in der Wste. Despite having borrowed some chorales and turbae from his father, the St. Matthew