Heinrich Poos

Frauenchor (SMezA) - deutsch

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...

Das bekannte Gedicht von Bertold Brecht aus dem Jahre 1950 wurde als Teil eines Zyklus auch schon von Hanns Eisler vertont und ist als 'Kinderhymne' bekannt geworden. Heinrich Poos, 1928 in Seibersbac...

According to the composer, this collection of eight poems, casually arranged under an eloquent title, gives fragmentary expression to autobiographical facts, views of life and of art. The texts have n...

Heinrich Poos (born 1928) is one of the great German composers of choral music of our time. In his 'Orpheus' cycle, Poos takes up the ancient myth of the singer and poet Orpheus who is a symbol of the...

gemischter Chor (SSATBB), Klavier, Flöte und Kontrabass Partitur = Klavierstimme

Frauenchor (SSAA) mit Klavier 4-händig

gemischter Chor (SATB) und Frauenchor (SMezA) mit Klavier 4-händig

The composer now presents the cycle he wrote for male chorus in 1980 in a version for mixed chorus. A work full of allusions and references, which attempts to suggest an answer to the question as to h...