Missa Princeps Pacis

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The Missa Princeps Pacis (Peace Prince Mass) is a composition for choir and organ by William Lloyd Webber . In 1962 he set the Latin mass to music, with the exception of the Credo.

Lloyd Webber, father of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and cellist Julian Lloyd Webber , was the organist and choir director of All Saints, Margaret Street , in London from 1939 to 1948 . From 1958 he was music director of Westminster Central Hall . During this time he composed two Latin masses, Princeps Pacis 1962 and Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae .

The title Prince of Peace ( Prince of Peace ) is part of a prophecy by Isaiah ( Isa 9,5  EU ), the most famous setting of which comes from George Frideric Handel in his oratorio Messiah ( For unto us a child is born ). The composition includes the ordinarium of Mass with the exception of the Credo , as is customary in the Anglican Church .

The work was published in 1962 under the English title Mass The Prince of Peace , with the dedication "to my friend Father Wilfred Purney with affection" (my friend Father Wilfrid Purney in affection). It was recorded by Chandos in 1997 as "Mass: Princeps Pacis ". It was part of the album Invocation , a collection of works by William Lloyd Webber sung by the Westminster Singers with organist Ian Watson and directed by Richard Hickox .

The mass was published with the Latin title in the William Lloyd Webber Centenary Collection , which Kevin Mayhew brought out in 2014 for the composer's centenary. The mass was performed in the anniversary year as part of a celebration with Lloyd Webber's sacred music in St Martin-in-the-Fields church on March 11, 2014. The St Martin's Voices sang with the organist Andrew Earis. One reviewer wrote: "The first half ended with possibly the finest of the chosen works, the choral Missa Princeps Pacis, a beautifully crafted and proportioned composition with echoes of Fauré , performed here with delicacy." (The first half ended with perhaps the best of the selected works, the Missa Princeps Pacis for choir, a beautifully crafted and proportioned composition with echoes of Fauré , which was executed with sensitivity.)

construction

Webber divided the text into five sentences, to which he gave Italian tempo markings :

  • Kyrie - Comodo e cantabile / Poco agitato
  • Gloria - Allegro comodo / Meno mosso ed espreso / Allegro comodo
  • Sanctus - Maestoso
  • Benedictus - Andante sostenuto
  • Agnus Dei = Comodo, ma poco mesto

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Missa Princeps Pacis . Kevin Mayhew,.
  2. ↑ a b Jessica Duchen: The other Lloyd Webber: Andrew's father William has always been ( English ) January 15, 2014.
  3. ^ John France: William Lloyd Webber / An Impressionistic View ( English ) musicweb-international.com. 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Mass "The Prince of Peace" . Cary & Co, 1962.
  5. ↑ Webber: Invocation ( English ) Chandos . Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  6. ^ William Lloyd Webber Centenary Collection - Missa Princeps Pacis ( English ) Kevin Mayhew. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Ben Collis: Feature Review: A Celebration of William Lloyd Webber at St Martin-in-the-Fields (11 March 2014) ( English ) classicalsource.com. March 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  8. ^ A b A Celebration of William Lloyd Webber ( English ) St Martin-in-the-Fields . Archived from the original on March 24, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 6, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org

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