Martin Scherber was born in 1907 in Nuremberg. He was a confirmed loner and little is known about his career. At the age of just five he played the violin and started to imitate things he had heard on the piano. He showed great reluctance to learn to read music, but soon acquired remarkable skill at piano improvisation. At the age of thirteen he started to compose. He appeared in public for the first time as a pianist in Nuremberg in 1922, and first presented compositions of his own the following year. During the Second World War he served as a soldier, and following the war he devoted himself to teaching and composition.
Martin Scherber’s oeuvre is modest in size. He worked for years on each of his symphonies. In addition, between 1930 and 1937 he composed several song cycles (including 27 children’s songs) and individual songs to texts by Goethe, Morgenstern, Novalis and himself.

Martin Scherber (1907-1974)
• Erste Symphonie in D Minor
  1. Gemessen - Etwas langsamer, schreitend - Ruhige
  2. Gemessen - Ruhig - Schnell - Festes Tempo, nich

  
  3. Gemächlich - A tempo, langsam beginnend - Leich
  4. Ruhiger, langsam - Etwas bewegter - A tempo, ge

  
  
  

• Sieben Goethelieder
  Nr. 1 Der Abschied
  Nr. 2 Die Bekehrte
  Nr. 3 Die Spröde
  Nr. 4 Über allen Gipfeln (Wanderers Nachtlied)
  Nr. 5 Gefunden
  Nr. 6 Gleich und gleich
  Nr. 7 Mignon (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt)
  
  
• So Schön war jene Stunde
  
  
• Zwei Lieder
  Frühhauch

  
  Stör nicht den Schlaf
  
  

• Grosser Kinderliederzyklus
  Nr. 1 Abendgebet
  Nr. 2 Mondliedchen
  Nr. 3 Schusterbub (Was hast du dann zu dem Schuste)
  Nr. 4 Wiegenlied (Eio popeio)
  Nr. 5 Kriegslied
  Nr. 6 Vergissmeinnicht
  Nr. 7 Tanzliedchen
  Nr. 8 Gute Nacht
  Nr. 9 Trompeterstückchen
  Nr. 10 Steht auf! (Morgenlied)
  Nr. 11 Rote Äuglein
  Nr. 12 Kinderpredigt
  Nr. 13 Kindergebet
  Nr. 14 Wenn die Kinder
  Nr. 15 Engelsgesang
  Nr. 16 Hinter der Donaubrück (Wirst du mir keine )
  Nr. 17 Die Magd an der Wiege
  Nr. 18 Wo bist du dann g'sessen?
  
  
• Kleiner Kinderliederzyklus
  Nr. 1 Morgenlied
  Nr. 2 Kindergebet
  Nr. 3 Der Vogelfängern
  Nr. 4 Urlicht
  Nr. 5 Aufforderung
  Nr. 6 Will frei sein
  Nr. 7 Todaustreiben
  Nr. 8 Vogelfänger
  Nr. 9 Gute Nacht
  
  
• Drei Lieder
  Wanderers Nachtlied
  Leid meid und ertrag
  Hymne an die Nacht

  
  
  
  

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