Messa per Rossini
The Messa per Rossini is a requiem that was composed as a joint composition by thirteen Italian composers .
Impressed by the death of Gioachino Rossini on November 13, 1868, Giuseppe Verdi invited twelve other composers to participate in the joint composition of a funeral mass for Rossini. The premiere was to take place on the first anniversary of Rossini's death, November 13, 1869, in Bologna . The Messa per Rossini was completed in September 1869, but a performance did not take place due to adverse circumstances. The manuscript was then initially forgotten.
Giuseppe Verdi took over his own contribution, the concluding Libera me , in a revised form as the nucleus for the composition of his own Messa da Requiem . Antonio Buzzolla, Antonio Cagnoni, Pietro Platania and Teodulo Mabellini proceeded similarly. Some of them have been extended and revised to perform.
The collective composition was rediscovered in 1970 by the musicologist David Rosen and posthumously premiered on September 11, 1988 by the Gächinger Kantorei under the direction of Helmuth Rilling at the European Music Festival Stuttgart and also released on CD and LP.
occupation
- Soloists: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass
- Four to six-part mixed choir
- Orchestra: Piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 4 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, oficleide , 4 timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam , organ, strings (also divided and solo)
Structure of the work and participating composers
composer | part | sentence | occupation |
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Antonio Buzzolla (1815-1871) |
I. Introit | Requiem e Kyrie | Choir |
Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897) |
II. Sequence | 1. Dies irae | Choir |
Carlo Pedrotti (1817-1893) |
2. Tuba mirum | Baritone solo and choir | |
Antonio Cagnoni (1828-1896) |
3. Quid sum miser | Duet: soprano, alto | |
Federico Ricci (1809-1877) |
4. Recordare of Jesus | Quartet: soprano, alto, baritone, bass | |
Alessandro Nini (1805-1880) |
5. Ingemisco | Tenor solo and choir | |
Raimondo Boucheron (1800–1876) |
6. Confutatis Oro supplex |
Bass solo and choir | |
Carlo Coccia (1782–1873) |
7. Lacrimosa Amen |
Choir | |
Gaetano Gaspari (1807-1881) |
III. Offertory |
|
Quartet: soprano, alto, tenor, bass and choir |
Pietro Platania (1828–1907) |
IV. Sanctus |
|
Soprano solo and choir |
Lauro Rossi (1812-1885) |
V. Agnus Dei | Agnus Dei | Alto solo |
Teodulo Mabellini (1817-1897) |
VI. Communion | Lux aeterna | Trio: tenor, baritone, bass |
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) |
VII. Responsory |
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Soprano solo and choir |
literature
- Michele Girardi, Pierluigi Petrobelli (eds.): Messa per Rossini: la storia, il testo, la musica. Ricordi, Milano 1988, ISBN 88-85065-08-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- Ulrich Prinz (ed.): Messa per Rossini: history, sources, music. Series of publications by the International Bach Academy Stuttgart, vol. 1. Stuttgart 1988, ISSN 1012-8034
Web links
- Works by and about Messa per Rossini in the catalog of the German National Library