The Messe breve no. 7 'Aux Chapelles', in C major dates from the 1890's. With its purity of line and transparent polyphony, its melodic simplicity and the economy of its modulations, the Messe breve no. 7 is characteristic of Charles Gounod's religious style, that is marked by the influence of Palestrina and which also evokes the German Cecilian movement.
