Weltliche Musik für Männerchor a cappella R. Schumann The editor

The editor

* Preludio a "Nei cieli un grido risuonò"

sweet chariot)

and steered away from predictability by constantly varying bar- and phrase-lengths

and passages with altered notes

Weltliche Musik für Männerchor a cappella R. Schumann The editorDuring his lifetime, Rheinbergers works for mens choir were a mainstay for various kinds of gatherings of singing societies and today the works are just waiting to be discovered. This volume, which contains 13 songs, offers a representative cross section from his more than 90 works for mens choir a cappella. Songs have been chosen whose texts still speak to us today: songs that evoke nature, or that contain convivial and humorous, as well as songs