Chapter VI: Part IV: Modern Choral Music

XI. CONTEMPORANEOUS CHORAL MUSIC IN GERMANY 347

Contemporaneous Choral Music in Germany--Richard Strauss:
_Wanderers Sturmlied_; _Taillefer_; Motets--Taubmann:
_Eine Deutsche Messe_; _Sängerweihe_; Georg Schumann:
_Ruth_; _Totenklage_ and other works--Max Reger’s
choral compositions; Schönberg: _Gurrelieder_;
‘Transfigured Night’; _Pierrot lunaire_--Other choral
writers of the present; Felix Draeseke’s _Christus_;
Wolfrum’s _Weihnachtsmysterium_; Albert Fuchs; Wilhelm
Platz; August Bungert’s _Warum? Woher? Wohin?_ Felix
Woyrsch: _Totentanz_ and other works; Wilhelm Berger’s
_Totentanz_; Karl Ad. Lorenz: _Das Licht_; other
contributors to modern German choral literature.

XII. CONTEMPORANEOUS CHORAL MUSIC IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA 359

Elgar: ‘The Light of Life’; ‘The Dream of Gerontius’;
‘The Apostles’; ‘The Kingdom’; ‘The Music
Makers’;--Parry: ‘War and Peace’; ‘The Vision of
Life’; ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’; Mackenzie; Cowen;
Coleridge-Taylor--Bantock: ‘The Fire Worshippers’; ‘Omar
Khayyam’ and other choral works--Holbrooke: ‘The Bells,’
‘Byron’ and other works; Grainger and others; Walford
Davies: ‘Everyman’; ‘The Temple’ and other works; minor
English choral writers--Horatio Parker: ‘Morven and
the Grail’ and smaller works; Chadwick: ‘Judith’ and
‘Noël’--Henry Hadley: ‘Merlin and Vivian’ and short
works; F. S. Converse: ‘Job’; other American choral
writers.

XIII. CONTEMPORARY CHORAL MUSIC IN FRANCE, ITALY, RUSSIA AND
ELSEWHERE 386

Debussy: _L’enfant prodigue_, _La demoiselle élue_
and _Le martyre de Saint-Sébastien_; Reynaldo Hahn:
_La pastorale de Noël_; Gabriel Pierné: _La croisade
des enfants_; _Les enfants de Bethlehem_; _Les
fioretti de Saint-François d’Assisi_--Florent Schmitt:
Psalm XLVII; Vincent d’Indy: _Chant de la cloche_,
etc.--Renaissance of oratorio in Italy; Perosi and
his oratorios; Bossi: _Canticum canticorum_; _Il
Paradiso perduto_; Wolf-Ferrari: _La Vita Nuova_ and
other works--Scandinavia; choral music in Russia;
Moussorgsky; Rimsky-Korsakoff; Glazounoff; Glière;
Arensky and others; choral composition in Poland,
Bohemia, Hungary, Spain.