Peter Cornelius' groundbreaking sacred songs include Vater unser Lord’s Prayer , which adapts plainsong chant into a deeply personal musical language. The Marienlieder sacred and...

Peter Cornelius' groundbreaking sacred songs include Vater unser Lord’s Prayer , which adapts plainsong chant into a deeply personal musical language. The Marienlieder sacred and erotic vocabulary. Unusual for their numerous revisions, the Weihnachtslieder successful contributions to the Christmas music of Cornelius’s time. This is the last of a four-volume edition of Peter Cornelius’s complete songs.