Gott ist gegenwärtig, op. 106 (Score) 31.228/06 illustrate the fleeting and transitory

illustrate the fleeting and transitory nature of earthly life: an impressive musical-poetic exposition of potent baroque pictures of ”vanity

strongly influenced by Franz Schubert

(5) ornamentation

” Today we only have an inkling about this struggle

Julian Fontana

Gott ist gegenwärtig, op. 106 (Score) 31.228/06 illustrate the fleeting and transitoryReprint of the first edition. Friedrich Spitta recommended to Herzogenberg that he set Gerhard Tersteegens text Gott ist Gegenwrtig on the occasion of that poets 200th birthday. Besides the obbligato organ, Herzogenberg restricted the instrumentation to strings, two trumpets, three trombones and timpani, and thus achieved a majestic quality which corresponds to the text.