Helmut Schlegel
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Helmut Alfons Schlegel is a German Franciscan Catholic priest, meditation instructor, author, librettist and songwriter. He is known for writing new spiritual songs, set to music by various composers.
Schlegel in 2017
Premiere of Laudato si' on 6 November 2016 at the Limburg Cathedral, conducted by the composer Peter Reulein
Laudato si' (oratorio)
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Laudato si' is an oratorio composed in 2016 by Peter Reulein on a libretto by Helmut Schlegel. Subtitled Ein franziskanisches Magnificat, it includes the full Latin text of the Magnificat, expanded by
Helmut Schlegel
…Akzente in the Echter Verlag in Würzburg. On a commission by the Diocese of Limburg, he wrote the text for an oratorio with music by Peter Reulein, Laudato si' – Ein franziskanisches Magnificat, published by the Dehm-Verlag in 2016. He structured the work, based on the Magnificat in Latin, in a prologue and five scenes; he included texts by…
The same performers reprised the work at the Frankfurt Cathedral on 29 January 2017.
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