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Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
| 1770-1827Ludwig van Beethoven was without doubt one of the most influential composers in the history of music. His works formed the culmination of many genres – particularly instrumental – of Viennese classicism, and laid the foundation for the following decades. But Beethoven’s vocal works set standards too: the late Missa Solemnis is one of the most impressive choral works of its time; but his earlier Mass in C also opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical text, and set the benchmark for the further development in the composition of the mass. And with the final chorus of the Ninth Symphony, the setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy, Beethoven created one of the most frequently-performed and best known choral pieces of all, writing a timeless musical memorial to himself. Personal details
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Editor
Jan Schumacher
| 1980Professor Jan Schumacher is Director of Music at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and conductor of Camerata Musica Limburg. He has been teaching choral conducting to beginners and advanced students for over twenty years, regularly leads international conducting courses and master classes and is active worldwide as a guest conductor, adjudicator and seminar leader. He is Chairman of the Choral Advisory Board of the German Music Council and Vice President of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM). As an author and editor he has been associated with Carus-Verlag for many years. Personal details
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Arranger
Heribert Breuer
| 1945Heribert Breuer was born on 27 September 1945 in Heidelberg. He spent the first half of his life as a cantor in Lübeck, Würzburg and Aachen. After leaving the church, he took up a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he remained until his retirement in 2010. He was awarded the Rome Prize (Villa Massimo), the Bavarian State Prize and scholarships in Olevano and Worpswede. As a conductor and organist, he travelled extensively in Spain and South America. His compositional work increasingly specialised in unusual versions of old masters: Bach's ‘Art of Fugue’ and the Goldberg Variations, Schubert's ‘Swan Song’, Brahms' Requiem and the ‘Four Serious Songs’ for chamber ensemble. Many of these works were written for the Berlin Bach Academy, which he founded in 1991. His hobbies include travelling, the Spanish language and the wines of Hermann Dörflinger. (August 2025) Personal details
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