This sacred a cappella composition for boys choir and mixed choir on the words of the 150th psalm is conceived with its up to 12-tone for a large cast. The work was composed in 1934.

The composition "An den Tod" (To the death) op. 73.1 for boys' choir and male choir based on words by Gerrit Engelke (1890-1918) was written in 1937. As the composer himself fell in the fight at an age of 36 barely three years later at the beginning of the Second World War, this work seems like a foreshadowed anticipation on the own destiny.

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The composition Bittgebet (Supplication) op. 91 for male choir based on words by Friedrich Holzapfel was written in 1936.

The Heroes' Symphony op. 72, composed in 1936, is to be understood as a tribute to the soldiers who died in the World War. The later deliberately misinterpreted patriotic stance of the composer Ferndinand Wilhelm Kranzhoff directs, in the words of German poets, our gaze to the German nation on behalf of all victims of a senseless slaughter for the aims of an unscrupulous political elite.
As the composer, only 36 years old, fell in combat barely four years later at the beginning of the Second World War, this work seems like a foreboding foresight into one's own fate.

Peter Cornelius set his poem Der deutsche Schwur (The German Vow) for Male Choir to music in 1873 one year before his death.

Peter Cornelius set his poem Der deutsche Schwur (The German Vow) for Male Choir to music in 1873 one year before his death. Here an orchestration of the choir piece by Ferdinand Wilhelm Kranzhoff for brass ensemble.

Peter Cornelius set his poem Der deutsche Schwur (The German Vow) for Male Choir to music in 1873 one year before his death. Here the piano reduction of an orchestration of the choir piece by Ferdinand Wilhelm Kranzhoff for brass ensemble.