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Hermann Suter's oratorio Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi is a work of about seventy-minutes' duration for soloists, mixed chorus, children's chorus, orchestra, and organ. Its text, by St. Francis of Assisi, is the Canticle of the Creatures, in which each element of creation is personified. Suter sets the text in a series of nine movements, each expressing the characteristics of a particular element. Thus, Brother Fire is described in a vigorous triple-fugue with flame-like string figuration, and Sister Moon and the stars by string harmonics, harp, and celeste. Hermann Suter (1870-1926) studied in Basel, Stuttgart, and Leipzig, under Reinecke. As conductor of the Musikgesellschaft, (Sympho...
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