Composed By: Arnold Schoenberg

Purchase sheet music at Boelke-Bomart/Schott

Voicing: SATB

Keyword

Event/Holiday: Yom Kippur

Language: Aramaic, English

Difficulty: difficult

Country: Germany/America

Solos: speaker

Instruments: orchestra

Lyrics: Yom Kippur liturgy & Schoenberg

Publisher: Boelke-Bomart

Year Composed/Published: 1938

Timing: 11:00

Tempo: moderate

First Line: The Kabballah tells a legend

description: This work is much more demanding on the orchestra than the chorus. It is based on the traditional Yom Kippur text and its Ashkenazic melody, but the composer consciously avoided any hint of sentimentality.