Windhaag Fair
The Windhaager Mass , actually mass in C major for alto voice, two horns and organ , is a musical work by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner ( WAB 25). It got its nickname because the fair originated around 1842 during Bruckner's stay in the village of Windhaag near Freistadt . This mass is the first of three so-called “Choral Masses” [the Windhaager Mass (WAB 25), the Kronstorfer Mass (WAB 146) and the Mass for Maundy Thursday (WAB 9)] that Bruckner composed when he was a school assistant in Windhaag and was in Kronstorf .
Bruckner wrote the Windhaager Mass as an eighteen-year-old school assistant. Because of its simplicity, it is considered to be an early work by Bruckner, who in later years developed his own musical language with large-scale trade fair compositions; first in the Missa solemnis of 1854, then after his studies with Simon Sechter in the three numbered masses ( Mass No. 1 in D minor , Mass No. 2 in E minor and Mass No. 3 in F minor ).
The Windhaag Mass cannot be used well in normal liturgical practice because Bruckner did not compose some passages in the text- rich Gloria and Credo . Out of the desire to still be able to use Bruckner's music in the liturgy, the arrangement for four-part mixed choir, string quintet, two horns and organ, or only with organ accompaniment was created in 1927. The original arrangement comes from Kajetan Schmidinger, while Joseph Messner has "revised, supplemented and provided an organ accompaniment".
literature
- Keith William Children: The Wind and Wind-Chorus Music of Anton Bruckner . Greenwood Press, Westport CT 2000, ISBN 0-313-30834-9 , pp. 2-5.
- John Williamson: The Cambridge Companion to Bruckner . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-80404-3 , pp. 43-45.
Notes and individual references
Web links
- Windhaager Messe, WAB 25 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project