Friday 11.10.2024 at 18.00 in Miejski Dom Kultury in Zgorzelec
The Schoole will perform a programme with a choice of songs from Angelus Silesius’ Heilige Seelen=Lust (1657/68).
Heilige Seelen=Lust a collection of religious and spiritual songs / poems, the music for which was composed by Georg Joseph, a composer associated with the bishop’s court in Breslau. He is mentioned in several contemporary sources as a ‘famous composer’. Unfortunately, little is known about his life today, and only his compositions from Heilige Seelen=Lust, as well as the works contained in the so-called Krzeszów Passion Prayer Book of 1682 (Schmerzhaffter / Lieb und / Kreutz-Weeg) have survived to our times.
Heilige Seelen=Lust or The Holy Delight of the Spirit is a cycle of religious songs about man’s knowledge of holiness. The subject of the poems is the human soul in love with Jesus – the psyche, seeking the Saviour on the paths of its life. Scheffler was very much inspired by the biblical Song of Songs. In Helige Seelen=Lust, the soul (psyche) is the Bride and Jesus is the Bridegroom.
A project produced by:
Internationale Jacob Böhme Gesellschaft, The Schoole of Night and Miejski Dom Kultury w Zgorzelcu
The Schoole of Night 
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