Christmas music
For Bertold Hummel, making music at Christmas was a matter of course throughout his life. Whether as a boy singer in his father's school choir, as a cantor in his Freiburg parish, as a cellist or as a happy family man at the piano, he always enjoyed helping to organise this celebration. As a composer, he enjoyed dressing up the old Christmas carols in a new guise time and again. This resulted in numerous compositions ranging from simple choral pieces to chamber and orchestral music to the great choral fantasia "O du fröhliche Weihnachtszeit" for 2 choirs, 4 organs and trumpets.
Advent song (1981)
Ave Maria (op. 97e2, 1993)
Choral fantasia on "O du fröhliche" (op. 54, 1975)
Christmas Suite for chamber orchestra (op. 13b, 1950)
Glory to God (Gloria) (1972)
Hail Mary (op. 97e1, 1993)
Meditation for clarinet (or bass clarinet) (op. 77b, 1979)
Merry Christmas for two (2002)
Noël - a little Christmas suite in 6 movements (op. 87e, 1989)
Pastorella for 5 recorders (1960)
Revelation of new life (op. 8, 1953)
Silent night (1974/1980)
Three Marian frescoes for organ (op. 42, 1970)
Tower music I-V for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones (op. 88c, 1988)
