Cantus Missae
The Mass in E flat major Cantus Missae (op. 109) (full name Cantus Missae ex octo modulatione vocum concinnatus ) is a Mass setting for double choir ( SATB / SATB) a capella by Josef Rheinberger . He composed it between January 13th and 18th, 1878, whereby Credo , Sanctus and Benedictus were composed in a single day. On February 20, Rheinberger dedicated the work to the newly elected Pope Leo XIII. On New Year's Day 1879, the mass was performed for the first time in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche in Munich, together with Rheinberger's four-part offertory Tui sunt coeli . The first edition appeared in 1879 in the music publishing house Josef Aibl in Munich .
construction
The Mass in E flat major op. 109 is Rheinberger's only double-choir mass composition. A full performance takes about 24 minutes. The sentence sequence is:
- Kyrie (Moderato)
- Gloria (Allegro moderato)
- Credo (Moderato)
- Sanctus (Lento)
- Benedictus (Andantino)
- Agnus Dei (Lento)
The work structure follows the ordinarium , whereby the words Gloria in excelsis Deo and Credo in unum Deum are composed (the former for eight-part choir, the latter for bass in unison ).
reception
Rheinberger's student Joseph Renner jun. wrote about the mass op. 109 that it was “probably the most important eight-part mass of modern times” and constituted “the high point among Rheinberger's a capella works”.
The music historian Otto Ursprung (1879–1960) described the work as “the most beautiful pure vocal mass of the 19th century”.
The musicologist Peter Büssers attested to the mass “an always catchy and vocal melody that was derived from Gregorian chant, partly song-like melodies combined with all the compositional achievements of the late romantic period” and said that the whole thing reminded “of a Palestrina composing in the 19th century ”.
Pope Leo XIII. awarded Rheinberger in July 1879 for his composition with the Order of Gregorius .
Discography (selection)
- Kammerchor Stuttgart (conductor: Frieder Bernius ), Carus-Verlag , Stuttgart 1989
- Choir of Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge (conductor: Geoffrey Webber), Universal Music , 1997/2015
- St Albans Cathedral Choir (conductor: Andrew Lucas), Lammas, 2007
- Camerata Vocale Freiburg (direction: Winfried Toll ), Ars Metalli (membrane), 2012
literature
- Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Missa in Eb - Cantus Missae op.109, Carus Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, CV 50.109
Web links
- Entry at www.klassika.info
- Mass in E flat major, Op.109 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Gmeinwieser: Josef Rheinberger and the Munich court orchestra , in: Josef Rheinberger - work and effect. Report on the international symposium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the composer's death, organized by the Society for Bavarian Music History and the Institute for Musicology of the University of Munich , Munich, November 23-25, 2001 (Munich publications on music history, vol. 62), Hans Schneider Verlag , Tutzing 2004, ISBN 978-3-7952-1175-2 , p. 256
- ^ Latin text of the dedication , JG Rheinberger-Archiv, Vaduz
- ^ Siegfried Gmeinwieser: Josef Rheinberger and the Munich court orchestra , in: Josef Rheinberger - work and effect. Report on the international symposium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the composer's death, organized by the Society for Bavarian Music History and the Institute for Musicology of the University of Munich , Munich, November 23-25, 2001 (Munich publications on music history, vol. 62), Hans Schneider Verlag , Tutzing 2004, ISBN 978-3-7952-1175-2 , p. 249
- ^ Entry in: Musical-literary monthly report for the year 1879, No. 7 (July), Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag , Leipzig, p. 215
- ↑ Otto Ursprung: Die Katholische Kirchenmusik in: Ernst Bücken (Ed.): Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft, Potsdam 1931, p. 274
- ^ Peter Büssers: Romantic eight voices from Freiburg on www.klassik.com, October 18, 2010