Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Johann Herbeck (1831-77) joined the Wiener Männergesang-Verein in 1852, rose to the position of conductor in 1856, and continued as honorary conductor until his early death. During this time, he composed over a hundred works for men's chorus, both a cappella and accompanied, most of which were settings of German lyric poetry. The thirty-six compositions in this edition, amounting to one-half of his output for unaccompanied men's chorus, have been selected to illustrate his full command of a variety of styles and forms over his career of twenty-five years. Herbeck wrote for a chorus in four parts (TTBB), augmented in some pieces by solo voices. His works range from charming folk-like settings in strophic form and diatonic harmony, to dramatic expressions of the text in a chromatic idiom cast in modified-strophic and through-composed designs. The edition includes a biography of the composer and an evaluation of his works in this genre.

Contents
Selected German Works for Unaccompanied Men's Chorus
NB: Both Chorus and Soli ensembles are in four parts.

1. Im Volkston, Chorus
2. Am Neckar am Rhein! Chorus
3. Das macht das dunkelgrüne Laub, Soli and Chorus
4. Neuer Frühling! Chorus
5. Wer ein Herz treueigen hält, Chorus
6. Beim Wein, Chorus
7. In der Fremde, Chorus
8. Gleich und Gleich, Chorus
9. Frühling und Liebe, Chorus
10. Husarenlied, Chorus
11. Trinkweise, Chorus
12. Trinkspruch, Soli and Chorus
13. Mucker und Schlucker, Chorus
14. Morgenlied, Chorus
15. Sängers Wahlspruch, Chorus
16. Morgengebet, Chorus
17. Festgesang, Soli and Chorus
18. Versenkung, Chorus
19. Wanderlied, Chorus
20. Festgesang für den Kronprinzen Rudolf, Chorus
21. Wanderlied der Prager Studenten, Chorus
22. Das Vermächtniß der Todten, Chorus
23. Ständchen, Chorus
24. Die Studenten, Soli and Chorus
25. Gruß an Steiermark! Chorus
26. Danklied, Chorus
27. Sahara, _Chorus
28. Tempora mutantur, Bass Solo and Chorus
29. Was uns liebt und was wir lieben, Chorus
30. Im Erzgebirge, Soli and Chorus
31. Der Verliebte, Chorus
32. Raum dem Lenze, Chorus
33. Wanderlust, Chorus
34. Maienzeit! Soli and Chorus
35. Werner's Lied aus Welschland (I), Chorus
36. Werner's Lied aus Welschland (II), Chorus