Bertold Hummel

Als Unterrichts- und Vortragsstück hat Bertold Hummels 1969 entstandene Sonatine op. 35 viele junge Musizierende auf ihrem Weg begleitet. Tausendfach in alle Welt verkauft, zählt sie zu den bekanntest...

Gesangstechnik verbessern mit Vokalisen!In der Tradition von Mendelssohns Liedern ohne Worte komponiert, mit künstlerischem und pädagogischem Anspruch.

What most makes me a human being?' This is the existential question that Vincent Van Gogh asked his brother in a letter and that he answered himself at once: 'A person who doesn't feel small - who doe...

Written for church services, Bertold Hummel's motets were first performed by the choirs of the Würzburg Cathedral. This Dankhymnus enjoys remarkable popularity. The text from the first Christian centu...

This Ave Maria is an arrangement made by Bertold Hummel in December 1997 of his motet Gegrüßet seist du, Maria [Hail Maria] (C 53714) which he had composed on 20 May 1993 with a dedication in memory o...

Die Motette Gegrüsset seist du, Maria komponierte Bertold Hummel am 20. Mai 1993 und widmete sie dem Gedenken seiner tief gläubigen Schwester Erika. Mein Vater, der im selben Jahr auch das Würzburger...

When it was possible to celebrate the Catholic Mass in the German language as well, Bertold Hummel wrote his motet Ehre sei Gott for mixed four-part choir. This piece is a 'German gloria' and can be p...

This 'utility music' in the best sense of the word is warmly recommended for all male-voice choirs. Bertold Hummel wrote a-cappella choral music mainly for use in church services. He composed Cantate...

This work in three movements was written in 1991 at the suggestion of the Canadian saxophonist Normand DesChênes.The character of the opening movement is determined by the sonata form with two themes....

A tone series, heard at the beginning in unison, is the basic material to be formed in the first movement. The intervals of a minor third and a fourth or fifth play a special role, whether in the melo...

Bertold Hummel's a-cappella choral music was mainly written for being used in services.The missa 'Cantabo Domino' was composed in 1958 for the liturgical festival of a Catholic student community in Fr...

Missa brevis for mixed choir and eight wind instruments Op. 5 was created in 1951 and premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music the following year. The Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie...

Als umfassende, nicht nur chormusikalische Offenbarung erweist sich Bertold Hummels Adventskantate Offenbarung neuen Lebens für Alt-Solo, gemischten Chor und Kammerorchester op. 8. In seinem 1953 im A...

The rushing of the Holy Spirit to which the hymn 'Veni creator' refers is symbolized by fast semiquaver runs of the organ which return again and again during the whole piece. Alternately, the text is...

Dieses Auftragswerk des Siemens-Kultur-Programms war Pflichtstück bei der 47. Internationalen Orgelwoche Nürnberg - Musica sacra 1998.