XI. CONTEMPORANEOUS CHORAL MUSIC IN GERMANY 347 Contemporaneous Choral Music in Germany--Richard Strauss: _Wanderers Sturmlied_; _Taillefer_; Motets--Taubmann: _Eine Deutsche Messe_; _Sängerweihe_; Georg Schumann: _Ruth_; _Totenklage_ and other works--Max Reger’s choral compositions; Schönberg: _Gurrelieder_; ‘Transfigured Night’; _Pierrot lunaire_--Other choral writers of the present; Felix Draeseke’s _Christus_; Wolfrum’s _Weihnachtsmysterium_; Albert Fuchs; Wilhelm Platz; August Bungert’s _Warum? Woher? Wohin?_ Felix Woyrsch: _Totentanz_ and other works; Wilhelm Berger’s _Totentanz_; Karl Ad. Lorenz: _Das Licht_; other contributors to modern German choral literature. XII. CONTEMPORANEOUS CHORAL MUSIC IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA 359 Elgar: ‘The Light of Life’; ‘The Dream of Gerontius’; ‘The Apostles’; ‘The Kingdom’; ‘The Music Makers’;--Parry: ‘War and Peace’; ‘The Vision of Life’; ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’; Mackenzie; Cowen; Coleridge-Taylor--Bantock: ‘The Fire Worshippers’; ‘Omar Khayyam’ and other choral works--Holbrooke: ‘The Bells,’ ‘Byron’ and other works; Grainger and others; Walford Davies: ‘Everyman’; ‘The Temple’ and other works; minor English choral writers--Horatio Parker: ‘Morven and the Grail’ and smaller works; Chadwick: ‘Judith’ and ‘Noël’--Henry Hadley: ‘Merlin and Vivian’ and short works; F. S. Converse: ‘Job’; other American choral writers. XIII. CONTEMPORARY CHORAL MUSIC IN FRANCE, ITALY, RUSSIA AND ELSEWHERE 386 Debussy: _L’enfant prodigue_, _La demoiselle élue_ and _Le martyre de Saint-Sébastien_; Reynaldo Hahn: _La pastorale de Noël_; Gabriel Pierné: _La croisade des enfants_; _Les enfants de Bethlehem_; _Les fioretti de Saint-François d’Assisi_--Florent Schmitt: Psalm XLVII; Vincent d’Indy: _Chant de la cloche_, etc.--Renaissance of oratorio in Italy; Perosi and his oratorios; Bossi: _Canticum canticorum_; _Il Paradiso perduto_; Wolf-Ferrari: _La Vita Nuova_ and other works--Scandinavia; choral music in Russia; Moussorgsky; Rimsky-Korsakoff; Glazounoff; Glière; Arensky and others; choral composition in Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, Spain. PART V. THE ORGAN AND ITS MUSIC XIV. THE ORGAN FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT 397