Choral Music

              Braunfels is an interesting, but somewhat tragic case. He is pretty well forgotten, now, but in the 1920s and 30s, he was a musical figure very important and to the fore in Germany. Great conductors of the day were very interested in promoting his music. But, unfortunately, being half Jewish during the Nazi era, he had to go into hiding, and his music was banned.

                    I heard for the first time his Te Deum, and it is an impressive work for chorus, soloists, and orchestra, very much a late Romantic approach, and quite daring and lyrical. It reminds me of Bruckner, sometimes.