Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist. mixed choir (SATB). Partition de chœur.

Hermann Schroeder (1904-1984) taught music theory and choral direction at the Cologne Musikhochschule and is considered to be one of the most important Catholic church composers of the 20th century. For many decades, he conducted the Bach-Verein of Cologne and wrote numerous motets and masses, including 'Missa dorica' (Schott, C 33719). His liturgical choral works are deliberately easy to sing and are tailored to the needs and requirements of practical church music.
He followed on from the art of classical vocal polyphony and gave the individual linear parts a life of their own in moderate modernity. In the present small motet (of about 2 minutes' duration) the cantus firmus is in the bass. Instrumentation : mixed choir (SATB)

Schroeders liturgischen Chorwerke sind im Schwierigkeitsgrad bewusst einfach gehalten und auf die Bedürfnisse der kirchenmusikalischen Praxis zugeschnitten. Dabei knüpft er an die Kunst der klassischen Vokalpolyphonie an und gibt den linear geführten Einzelstimmen individuelles Eigenleben in gemäßigter Modernität. Besetzung : mixed choir (SATB)