Gott ist gegenwärtig, op. 106 (Score) 31.228/06 is now available for the

is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication

illustrate the fleeting and transitory nature of earthly life: an impressive musical-poetic exposition of potent baroque pictures of ”vanity

are also performed by vocal soloists

contains compositions for 1 to 3 voices and basso continuo

(5) ornamentation

Gott ist gegenwärtig, op. 106 (Score) 31.228/06 is now available for theReprint of the first edition. Friedrich Spitta recommended to Herzogenberg that he set Gerhard Tersteegens text Gott ist Gegenwrtig on the occasion of that poets 200th birthday. Besides the obbligato organ, Herzogenberg restricted the instrumentation to strings, two trumpets, three trombones and timpani, and thus achieved a majestic quality which corresponds to the text.