Alphons Diepenbrock - Wenn ich ihn nur habe

- Composer: Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock (2 september 1862 -- 5 april 1921) - Performers: Wilke te Brummelstroete (mezzosoprano), Bernard Bartelink (organ) - Year of recording: 1996 Geistliches Lied No. 5 (Wenn Ich Ihn nur habe), For Soprano and Organ, written in 1898. In one movement, marked Andante con moto. The Lieder “Wenn ich ihn nur habe“ and “Wenige wissen das Geheimnis der Liebe“ that Diepenbrock composed in the last months of 1898, can be seen as religious works, although this time they are not texts that belong in a liturgical or ecclesial context. Diepenbrock’s inspiration were two of the ’Geistliche Lieder’ from Novalis (1772-1801), for him one of the greatest and most profound representatives of Christian civilization, “the wisest of all“, as he once characterized him. In this poet he found “strange flowers of mystical ecstasy and clairvoyance“. In many of his verses Diepenbrock felt so addressed that he ca