Ansbacher Chorbuch is a collection of 18 little chorale motets and choral settings of melodies from the Protestant hymnal. The easy to intermediate vocal settings complement the Ansbacher Orgelbüchlei...
Mit seinem 1779 veröffentlichten Ideendrama "Nathan der Weise" hat Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) zwei Jahre vor seinem Tod dem Humanismus und Toleranzgedanken der Aufklärung ein grandioses Denk...
Schneider composed Cornissimo for the 225th anniversary of the internationally known company Gebr. Alexander in Mainz who have specialised in the making of brass instruments. Accordingly, the world pr...
William Blake was a highly versatile universal genius - poet, painter, copper engraver and philosopher - who in the face of the rationally based Enlightenment put the worship of ecstasy, energy, intui...
Enjott Schneider's 'Missa brevis' is based on the medieval Easter chorale 'Surrexit Christus Hodie' the headline of which shapes the melody line like a signature. The basic air is characterized by a t...
'Sonnengesang' [Canticle of the Sun] is part of world literature and has had a decisive influence on Italian poetry. It is considered to be the 'lullaby of the Italian language'. The musical setting o...
This work with its calmly pleading character lives on the contrast between the freely metric, virtually Gregorian passages and the strict time-beating sections. It is especially in the 'Da pacem' call...
The extremely compositional versatility of Enjott Schneider is evident even in the small(est) form of choral music. In his about four-and-a-half-minute sacred choral work Ubi caritas for six-part mixe...
St. Nicolas Church in Leipzig: the 9th of October 1989 saw the last great peace prayer with the Beatitudes, followed by the momentous non-violent peace demonstration. The famous film composer Enjott S...
Chatroom' uses original texts from the World Wide Web which appear in partly abstract tonal poetry. A conglomeration of unclear scraps of conversation from Internet forums and dating sites become a to...
When a composer like Enjott Schneider gets down to collecting original texts from lonely hearts columns and setting them to music in their original wording in an entirely unadorned way, irony, mockery...
St. Nicolas Church in Leipzig: The 9th of October 1989 saw the last great peace prayer with the Beatitudes, followed by the momentous non-violent peace demonstration. The famous film composer Enjott S...
Das Triptychon besteht aus drei einzelnen Oratorien, deren Zentrum und verbindendes Element Martin Luthers Trinitätslied von 1524 "Wir glauben all an einen Gott" ist, dessen drei Strophen deutlich Bez...
This collection of eighteen choral arrangements of melodies from the Protestant hymn book is meant to be used in services and little concerts. Rather varied with regard to the compositional approach o...
On the occasion of the quincentenary of Reformation Day in 2017, the composer Enjott Schneider thoroughly studied Martin Luther the individual and all his contradictions. The result is a brilliant, de...
Zum Wesen des Weltbildes der Luther-Zeit gehört die Allgegenwärtigkeit von Tod und Sterben, - angefangen von Pest, Kriegen bis zu den nie endenden Gefahren des Alltags. Daraus resultierten Ängste, die...
This work drew its inspiration from the famous picture of the Virgin Mary 'Gnadenbild Mariahilf' (1537) by Lucas Cranach the Elder which shows Mary as a woman of delicate beauty and modest sensuality...
Norbert J. Schneider (born in 1950) teaches composition at the Musikhochschule in Munich. He specialised in church music during his training and now writes predominantly for the organ. His organ tocca...
Easily playable choral arrangement by the composer Enjott Schneider (born 1950) from Munich
Four concertante pieces by the composer Enjott Schneider (born in 1950) from Munich. Schneider studied church music at the Regensburg Kirchenmusikhochschule and made himself a name as composer of the...
Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613) ist eine der kühnsten wie rätselhaftesten Komponistenfiguren. Seine Madrigalkunst weist harmonisch weit in Wagnersche Zeiten vor und ist für seine Epoche beispiellos. Hinter...
Nocturnes have a long tradition - from the notturni by Mozart and Haydn via the nocturnes of the Romantic era to Chopin who elevated the genre to fascinating character piece: He created ambivalently s...
