Christopher Hossfeld

COMPOSERCONDUCTOR

Works

ChamberFilmStageVocalChoralLiturgicalOrchestral

Click on NOTES for program notes, MP3 for recordings, and SCORE for links to online scores.

Chamber

your eyes have their silence (2008) • MP3 • NOTES

for string trio, commissioned by the Rosetta Trio

Three Miniatures (2001) • SCORE

for viola and cello

Three Bagatelles (1997)

for chamber ensemble

Viola Sonata (1997) • SCORE

for solo viola

Film

Secret Courage: The Walter Suskind Story (2005) • MP3 • NOTES

original music for the documentary on Suskind and the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam

Stage

Miss Julie (2002)

a one act opera on the play by August Strindberg

stitch counting (1999)

one act opera on poems by e. e. cummings

Vocal

Til it is ready (2004) • SCORE

song cycle for soprano, flute, cello and organ on texts from the Song of Solomon

Partings (2003)

song cycle for tenor and piano on ancient Chinese texts

Lenten Meditation (2003)

for soprano and organ

anyone lived in a pretty how town (2000)

for soprano and cello on the poem by e. e. cummings

one winter afternoon (2000)

for tenor, flute, viola, and harp on the poem by e. e. cummings

Ah! Sweet Dancer (1997)

for soprano and piano on poems by W. B. Yeats

Choral

Psalm 84 (2005)

anthem for choir and viola for the dedication of the new sanctuary at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Lincoln, Massachusetts

Wer nur den lieben Gott (2004)

anthem for unaccompanied choir

O pray for the peace of Jerusalem (2003)

anthem for choir and organ

Trinity (2001) • SCORE

anthem commissioned by Trinity Episcopal Church, Concord, Massachusetts

An die Musik (2000) • SCORE

for unaccompanied choir on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke

in Just– (1999)

for unaccompanied choir on the poem by e. e. cummings

Faith Comes from What Is Heard (1997) • SCORE

anthem commissioned by St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella (1997) • SCORE

arrangement of the carol for a-capella choir

Liturgical

Wedding Music (2005)

for brass quintet
• Processional March • SCORE
• Gradual • SCORE
• Recessional March • SCORE

Advent Service Music (2004)

for Sunday morning services at St. Anne’s in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Prelude – Communion – Postlude (2004)

service music for Trinity Episcopal Church, Concord, Massachusetts

Sung Morning Prayer Service in the Taizé Tradition (2003)

for choir, congregation, and organ at the Marquand Chapel, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut

Orchestral

Pange Lingua (2001)

work for chamber orchestra

Viola Concerto (1998)

for Sarah Darling and the Longy School of Music Chamber Orchestra

Scherzo (1996) • SCORE

for three youth string orchestras of varying ability: elementary, middle, and high school