Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. No.6 from Geistliche Chormusik" Op.12

Distler Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. No.6 from Geistliche Chormusik" Op.12
Motet for the Sunday of the Dead for five-part mixed chorus a cappella

Hugo Distler, born on the 24th June 1908 in Nuremberg and died on the 1st November 1942 in Berlin, was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.  He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory moving to Berlin in 1940 where he became Director of the Berlin National and Cathedral Choir.