Two Religious Choruses
| Full title | Two Religious Choruses for mixed chorus a cappella | |
| Date composed | 1941 | |
| Details |
1. Wer weiss? / Who knows? (Anonymous, ca. 1551; English translation by Florence L. Kite) 2. Hymn (John Masefield; German translation by Vally Weigl) Composition completed December 1941. Dedication: To Wilbur K. Thomas and the Carl Schurz Foundation. Scoring: SATB |
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| Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-162, holograph score. See also LOCMA box-folder 75/6, draft ms (1 page), signed and dated: New York, December 1941. | |
| Publication details | 1953, Associated Music Publishers. | |
| Availabiity | Score (with piano part for rehearsal only) from ACA and KWF | |
| Recordings | ||
Performances (click
icon to expand or collapse list)| 1 June 1947 | Boston, Boston Conservatory of Music: Boston Conservatory of Music students. |
| 11 October 1956 | New York, Austrian Institute, Carnegie Recital Hall, Wolf-Mahler-Weigl Evening: Ansonia Madrigal Singers, cond. Fred Popper (no. 1). Also on program: Hugo Wolf, songs; Gustav Mahler, songs; introduction by Carleton Sprague-Smith. |
| 2 December 1989 | Chicago, University of Chicago, Mandel Hall, Viennese Crosscurrents, Karl Weigl, Neo- Romanticism, and the Modernist Movement, concert 3: Comedy Overture op. 32 and movement 2, Pro defunctis, from Symphony No. 2 (University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Barbara Schubert; Two Religious Choruses (University of Chicago Chorus, cond. Michael Melton). Also on program: Reger, Trost; Mahler, Kindertotenlieder; Bruckner, Te Deum. |
