 Some of Arnold von Bruck's chorales appeared in a highly cosmopolitan collection by Georg Rhau, the "Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge" of 1544.Unusually for the time, it contained music both by the early generation of Protestants, including Balthasar Resinarius and Sixtus Dietrich, and Roman Catholics such as Bruck.Bruck's contributions are for four voices, and include works in both Latin and German; some of the chorale settings are of tunes which were widely used for generations afterwards, such as "Christ lag in Todesbanden", famously also set by J.S.