SATB vocal soli, SATB choir, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, 2 violin, basso c...(+)
SATB vocal soli, SATB
choir, 2 trumpets, 2
trombones, timpani, 2
violin, basso continuo
SKU: CA.5030549
Composed by Michael
Haydn. Edited by Charles
H. Sherman. This edition:
urtext. Stuttgart Urtext
Edition: Johann Michael
Haydn. Missa
Beatiss.Virginis Mariae
Mh 15. Sacred vocal
music, Masses, Latin,
Feasts of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, Hymns in
praise of the Virgin
Mary. Single Part, Organ.
Composed circa 1758-1760.
MH 15. 24 pages. Duration
30 minutes. Carus Verlag
#CV 50.305/49. Published
by Carus Verlag
(CA.5030549).
ISBN
9790007223762. Key: C
major. Language:
Latin.
The Missa
Beatissimae Virginis
Maria was composed ca.
1758-1760, between the
end of his tenure as a
singer in the choir of
St. Stephen's in Vienna
and the beginning of his
first position as
violinist and music
director for the Bishop
of Grosswardein. The
scoring of SATB (for soli
as well as choir) and
church trio was augmented
by two trumpets (clarini)
and timpani, as well as
two trombones. The latter
instruments double the
alto and tenor voices in
tutti passages but in the
Et incarnatus est they
are also employed in an
obbligato role. On the
one hand, as an early
work this Mass is in the
style of the festive
baroque tradition, as
practiced in south-German
regions until the middle
of the eighteenth
century; on the other
hand it already shows the
subjective inspiration
which distinguished it
from many of the mass
settings by Haydn's
contemporaries. Score and
part available separately
- see item
CA.5030500.