Bertold Hummel

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...

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...

Diese Drei Walzer, zu festlichen Anlässen komponiert, voller Anspielungen für die Widmungsträger, sind nicht schwer zu realisieren und tragen die unverwechselbare Handschrift Bertold Hummels - einer s...

Diese Drei Walzer, zu festlichen Anlässen komponiert, voller Anspielungen für die Widmungsträger, sind nicht schwer zu realisieren und tragen die unverwechselbare Handschrift Bertold Hummels - einer s...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 7& 8).

Die Fantasia bucolica für Viola und Kammerorchester op. 13f (ursprünglicher Titel: Fantasie in D) entstand im Jahr 1956 im Auftrag des Kleinen Unterhaltungsorchesters Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. Im selbe...

Created in 1955, this piece, like the Cello Sonata Op. 2 composed a few years earlier, shows Bertold Hummel's familiarity with 'his' instrument which he studied with Atis Teichmanis. The entire work i...