Choralsuite Teil I, Wir glauben all an einen Gott, for mixed choir (SATB/SSAATTBB), Choral score

The first part of Ernst Pepping?s Choralsuite is a setting of Martin Luther?s three-verse hymn, written to replace the Latin Credo in the Reformation German mass. Luther also adapted Catholic statements (?unam sanctam catholicam ecclesiam? was changed to ?die ganz Christenheit auf Erden? [the whole Christian church on earth]) as well as incorporating a number of his own theological convictions. Pepping orientates his highly contrapuntal choral texture to the vocal style of the 16th and 17th centuries and uses traditional church modes.