Although Jenner’s music is entirely committed to the world of sound of his teacher, Brahms, it has at the same time a distinctly personal musical texture. It is sensitive and inward-looking, often characterized by a narrow motivic nexus. From 1906 onwards, Jenner engaged himself intensively with the subject of “folk song”, gave musicological lectures about it and arranged numerous Altdeutsche Volkslieder (Old German folk songs) from the 17th century, also for four-part mixed choir. Thus, he is likewise part of the artistic and scientific examination of historical music that was intensively pursued in the Romantic era as well. “Simple, unadorned and therefore so moving, the soul expresses its deepest feelings in these songs, in love’s lust and love’s sorrow, in love’s happiness and love’s heartache and most beautifully in love’s lament. […] Yet many of them are well worth snatching from oblivion.”, said Jenner – and even today these easy-to-sing folk song arrangements move choirs and their audiences alike and, in so doing, have a great impact.
The collection includes your personal access code for the HELBLING Media App in which all choral pieces are available as PDFs (with all optional additional verses in justified text) for your choir to print out in choral quantity. Also included are practice parts as MP3s for forwarding to your choir.