Composer Peter Schindler on this separate edition from Perpetuum mobile:
“O condicio misera”, a verse from text no. 26 in the Codex Buranus, is sung here by a male voice. The music and singing are dignified. The succinct, profound thoughts “Cum sit hora tibi mortis incognita” (The hour of your death is unknown to you) demonstrate the poetic power of the text.
The piece sounds like an address to humanity. The baritone's admonishing questions are aware of human weakness, but also offer a vision of redemption. Philip the Chancellor, the putative author of this text in the Codex Buranus, was famed for his sermons and poems. It is a sung Memento mori!.
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Peter Schindler
| 1960Composer, pianist and organist Peter Schindler writes and performs music for ballets and theatrical performances, films and dramatic recordings, instrumental and choral arrangements, chansons and sacred works. He is particularly passionate about his compositions for children and young adults, which has come to comprise hundreds of humourous children’s songs (Kinderhits mit Witz). His full-length musicals include Geisterstunde auf Schloss Eulenstein (Witching Hour at Eulenstein Castle), Max und die Käsebande (Max and the Cheese Gang), König Keks (Cookie King), Zirkus Furioso (Circus Allegro), and SCHOCKORANGE. These musicals are some of the most frequently played pieces of their kind by children’s and youth choirs in German-speaking theaters and schools. With his first English musical Circus Allegro, Peter’s hugely sucessful work for all kids under 100 is now also accessible to audiences around the world.
For further information visit: http://peter-schindler.de/
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/5-questions-for-peter-schindler/
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