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...
Obscuritas - Traumbild für Gitarre is dedicated to the topic of dream. Most of what can be heard are soft passages orbiting around a harmonic figurative model and suggestively evoking strangely beauti...
Das CONCERTO "BACH-METAMORPHOSEN" spielt nicht nur mit diesen berühmten vier Noten, sondern atmet auch die Radikalität und Kompromisslosigkeit der Bach'schen Ästhetik. Im Adagio-Mittelsatz wird der Ei...
Ein Konzert, das einige der berühmtesten historische Ecken im romantischen Deutschland beschreibt: als musikalische Impressionen, die jeweils dazu passend typische Melodien der Volksmusik zitieren. Da...
DREAMDANCERS, - eine Reise in die Wirklichkeiten der Nacht - handelt von Menschen, die in der Schwerelosigkeit des Traumes leben. Der Traum - von Sigmund Freud als "Königsweg zum Unbewussten" genannt...
The work is a musical depiction of the concept of ‘screaming and crying' in all its numerous aspects: a general shout and fanfare-like whoop to attract attention increases in intensity and chang...
As times go bye... is a title with several possible meanings. In one sense it is a nostalgic reference to the long period of time that has elapsed since the days of J. S. Bach. In another sense, thoug...
'Panta rhei - everything is in a state of flux' is the bottom line of what the Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed. 'Everything is in a continual state of flux and change' - to him, this was 'logos'...
This work was composed for the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach's death. It was premiered in Erfurt cathedral by the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and Silvius von Kessel, the cathedral organist. The work c...
The composer Enjott Schneider moves very successfully between music for film and television, on the one hand, and opera, symphony and chamber music, on the other hand. When writing this piece, he was...
'Musica arcaica No.1' is the first piece in a series of chamber music works in which Schneider as a composer examines music of other cultures (songs, dances among others). The old Cypriot shepherd's s...
In the center of this work is the melody of the middle section Moon reflected on the Erquan Spring (Erquan Yingyue) composed 1949 by the blind Erhu player Hua Yanjun. The melody rapidly spread through...
With his 'Omaggio a Vivaldi' Enjott Schneider drew a musical portrait of the Italian Baroque master. Whereas the first movement illuminates the topic of Vivaldi's scandalous relationship with the prim...
Literature for alto saxophone and organ is rare. In his piece, the composer Enjott Schneider from Munich examines a theme from the 16th century: The Catalan composer and vihuela player Luis de Milán (...
The Catalan composer and vihuela player Luis de Milán (1500-1561) ranks among the most important composers of the Spanish Renaissance. His collection El Maestro from 1536 was the first publication of...
The 'Song of Songs' or 'Song of Solomon' addressed to Sulamith and ascribed to Solomon is one of the most mysterious texts of the Bible. If the character of Solomon itself is enigmatic, the character...
Enjott Schneider's Concerto for violoncello takes up the Sumerian legend of the bird deity 'Dugud' in archaic scenes. Legend has it that Princess Emeshe was impregnated by the hermaphrodite - half eag...
'Nekyia' is one of the world's basic principles in the mythology of antiquity: each striving after higher values, each spiritualization and each attempt at perfection presupposes the passage through H...
In his new composition for oboe and harpsichord, Enjott Schneider deals with the 'circulus vitiosus', the vicious circle. The 'circulus' describes a fast whirling circular motion in rondo form which i...
To the composer Enjott Schneider, Golgatha, the biblical place of crucification, is a symbol of both the transient and transcendental in human life. For his composition of the same name, he chose the...
