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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2024
I am a correspondent member of the Academy of Berlin [1907], the Royal Academy of Brussels [1908], and the Academies of Florence [1923] and Bologna [1924].
When I was elected correspondent of the Berlin Academy, Albert Schweitzer hinted to me that I would do well to thank my colleagues on the Spree. I said to him: “Give me a particular text that does not require a large orchestral deployment, one that can be performed in a church gallery.” He then showed me Martin Luther's chorale that the Lansquenets sang with less liturgical words when they were saved from the siege of Francis I.
We know how Luther crafted the lyrics: on his way to the Wartsburg he had taken along his cantor who sang our plainsongs to him, and he repeated the verses phrase by phrase. He would say, “All right, that phrase stays. Well, that phrase doesn't stay!” That's how he made his chorales.
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