Kiel, Friedrich

Friedrich Kiel – Der Stern von Bethlehem, Oratorium nach Worten der heiligen Schrift für Soli, Chor und Orchester op. 83 (1883) /

Klavierauszug von Robert Keller (Vocal score with German & English libretto)

For more information about the piece read the preface to the full score:

Friedrich Kiel, according to his contemporary August Wellmer “a church composer in the spirit of the old
school in the fullest sense of the word,”4 has been largely forgotten today with his contributions to sacred
choral music. However, what Helmut Loos classified as his own “North German academic-historicizing style”5
in this genre was evidently soon perceived as obsolete. …

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