In 1993, Armin Kircher, the organiser of the Austrian Work Week for Church Music, contacted Bertold Hummel to ask him to collaborate musically. Until 1999, Hummel repeatedly wrote short liturgical choral pieces on the respective themes of the Werkwoche, which were published in the six publications listed below. Between 1993 and 1999, Hummel attended several Werkwochen events, and a collegial and friendly relationship developed between the two musicians. On 2 February 1994, Armin Kircher was one of the organists at the premiere of the organ work Ad missam op. 97f in Salzburg Cathedral.

The following liturgical works were commissioned and edited by Armin Kircher:

Zur Trauung - Neue Kompositionen zur Gestaltung von Trauungsgottesiensten for equal and mixed voices with and without accompaniment
Zur Eröffnung ("Der Herr sende euch Hilfe") for SATB
Doblinger-Verlag (Ed.: Österr. Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik), 1993 (Order no.: 45 442)

Dein Geist weht wo er will - Lieder zum Heiligen Geist for equal and mixed voices with or without accompaniment
Atme in mir, du heiliger Geist for 3 equal voices (SSA)
Atme in mir, du heiliger Geist for 4 mixed voices (SATB)
Come, Holy Spirit for 4 mixed voices (SATB)
Doblinger-Verlag (ed.: Österr. Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik), 1994 (order no.: 45 444)

I am the resurrection and the life - hymns for the funeral service
- for four mixed voices with and without accompaniment
I am the resurrection and the life for 4 mixed voices (SATB)
Doblinger-Verlag (ed.: Österr. Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik), 1995 (order no.: 45 448)
- for three mixed voices with and without accompaniment
Ich weiß, dass mein Erlöser lebt for 3 mixed voices (SAB)
Doblinger-Verlag (ed.: Österr. Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik), 1995 (order no.: 45 446)
- for three equal voices with and without accompaniment
To paradise may angels guide you (from the liturgy for the dead) Motet for 3 equal voices (1995)
(Ed.: Österr. Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik), 1995 (Order no.: 64 611)

Thus saith the Lord - Gospel verses for the church year for 4 mixed voices with and without accompaniment
Escheinung des Herrn (We have seen his star...) for 4 mixed voices (SATB)
Doblinger-Verlag (ed.: Österr. Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik), 1996 (order no.: 45 449)

Thus saith the Lord - Gospel verses for the church year for equal, 3 mixed and male voices
2nd Sunday of Advent (Prepare the way for the Lord...)(Lk 3,4,6) for 3 mixed voices (SAT or Bb)
Palm Sunday / Good Friday - Call before the Passion (Christ was obedient unto death for us...) for 3 mixed voices (SAT or Bb)
Celebration of the Easter Vigil - Hallelujah Psalm (Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good...) (Ps. 118/117) for 3 mixed voices (SA T or B)
Thus saith the Lord: I am the way (John 14:6) for 3 mixed voices (SSA)
Doblinger-Verlag (ed.: Österr. Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik), 1996 (order no.: 45 452)

Sing to the Lord. Choral settings for church services - 1998 (out of print! - the rights to the Hummel choral settings are held by the Bertold Hummel Foundation)
Praise and thanksgiving: Nun lobet Gott (hymn setting) GL 265 / Nun lobet Gott (choral verse) GL 265
Kyrie: Lord, have mercy (choral coda) GL 463 / Who in his word (choral coda) GL 485
Gloria: Praise and honour (hymn setting) GL 486 Hallelujah: Hallelujah (choral coda in F major)
Offertory: Lord our God (choral song) Conclusion of the High Prayer: Amen (choral coda)
Agnus Dei: Lamb of God (choral coda) GL 492 CV 91.001/00

Choral settings for the church year - 1999 (out of print! - the rights to the Hummel choral settings are held by the Bertold Hummel Foundation)
Christmas: Star over Bethlehem
Apparition of the Lord: A star stands in the sky
Lent: Bekehre uns, vergib die Sünde GL160 / Aus der Tiefe (PS 130)
Easter: This is the day GL 220 / Rejoice, Queen of Heaven GL 576
Corpus Christi / Eucharist: Behold, the bread we share here All Saints' Day / Life of faith: Friends of God at once GL 608 / Blessed are those who walk GL 614
Church: God calls his people together GL 640
Marriage / Baptism: The Lord bless you Psalms / Cantica: PS 130 From the depths CV 91.002/00

Sorrowful Christmas carol (L. Zenetti)

Biography

Armin Kircher, born on 6 December 1966 in Kufstein, grew up in Breitenbach in Tyrol and graduated from the Borromaeum College in Salzburg in 1985. He then studied church music at the Mozarteum University of Music in Salzburg, graduating in 1991. He was head of the church music department of the Archdiocese of Salzburg and has been the organisational director of the Austrian Work Week for Church Music since 1992. In addition, he was the collegiate conductor at St Peter's Collegiate Church in Salzburg and organist at the oldest surviving organ in the city of Salzburg in the Kajetanerkirche. He was the editor of numerous editions of old and new choral music. He penned many of the verses in the Gotteslob 2013. Kircher died of heart failure on 12 October 2015 at the age of just 48 during a train journey from Salzburg to Vienna. Armin Kircher is buried in St Peter's Cemetery in Salzburg.