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Choir - Sacred Works

Thanks to my long-term experience with amateur choirs, I am acquainted with the balancing act between requirement and practicability. My compositions and arrangements for mixed choirs often follow the classical tradition of four voices and have proved themselves on many occasions.

For performances in services and concerts you can find my original composition as well as four-part choral settings of known chorales/hymns, church- and Christmas songs. During the process of composing as well as arranging, I am constantly looking for colourful sounds and new, unexpected sound combinations. An edition of the late medieval Ave Regina caelorum by Guillaume Dufay for three-part mixed choir (SAM) and oriented towards today’s performance practice concerning register, completes this section.

If you are interested in a choral setting, an arrangement or a composition, which is adapted to the needs of your choir, then please issue an order! I would be happy to set clerical or mundane texts to music for the ensemble of your choice.

This section first presents my sacred compositions for choir in alphabetical order by title. Secular choral works can be found below.

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Guillaume Dufay: Ave Regina caelorum

Adaptation and edition of the Marian Antiphon Ave Regina caelorum by Guillaume Dufay for three-part mixed choir SAM set to meet today’s performance practice to make this Middle Age music performable.

Credo romano for choir and congregation

The “Credo romano“ sets the Latin confession of faith from the Catholic mass for mixed choir and congregation to music. With Gregorian melodies and Latin-American rhythms, it is a supplement to the Jazz Mass “Missa romana”.

Die ihr Gott preist (Those Who Praise The Lord) – Choir motet

The motet “Those who praise the Lord” for mixed choir is a song of praise for the powerful deeds of the Lord with a text from the old testament. The composition unites the form of the Baroque motet with the sound of classical modernism.

Exsultet – Easter Light Thanksgiving

The Exsultet for choir, congregation, organ, marimba and Latin percussion is a liturgical composition, lasting around eight minutes, for the light Thanksgiving in the Easter night, which can also be performed as an effective concert piece.

Jazz meets Gregorian chant – Jazz mass for mixed choir

The Missa romana is a jazz mass for mixed choir SATB. The jazz mass picks up melodies from the Gregorian and elements from Latin-jazz: the Missa de angelis encounters rhythms with a Latin feeling and colourful jazz harmonies.

Missa simplex - simple mass for mixed choir

The Missa simplex is a simple and easy-to-learn setting for four-part mixed choir by Thomas M. J. Schäfer. Instrumentation: four-part choir a capella or with organ accompaniment.

O du fröhliche (O How Joyfully) for mixed choir

The four-part choral movement to the popular Christmas song O du fröhliche is equally traditional and jazzy and is best suited for masses with a choir or atmospheric Christmas concerts.

Silent Night, Jazzy Night

The maybe most popular Christmas song for Christmas Eve gets a new touch to it with this four-part choir movement using jazzy sounds and new twists and turns.

Tantum ergo for mixed choir

A four-voiced choral movement put to the popular sacrament son “Tantum ergo” with Romantic harmonies and lively eighths functioning as a motor, festively topped by a polyphonic Amen as an Apotheistic Coda.

The Twelve Days Of Christmas

A spirited homophone choral setting to the cheerful English Christmas song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, in which stanza for stanza grows in length by listing more and more Christmas presents. I pack my bags and take with me…

Tu scendi dalle stelle – You Descend From The Stars

The popular Italian Christmas song “Tu scendi dalle stelle” maintains a simple, traditional choral setting. Next to the original text, this piece is also set with the German equivalent text.

Von Gott beschenkt (Gifted By The Lord) - Choir motet

The text from the book of the preacher, which is the basis for the motet “Gifted by the Lord”, is an appeal for pleasure without remorse. The setting for mixed choir is diverse and of medium complexity.

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