Bruckner, Joseph Anton - "Ecce sacerdos magnus" for Winds & Strings WAB 13 Vents & Orchestre Cordes |
Compositeur : | Bruckner, Joseph Anton (1824 - 1896) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Vents & Orchestre Cordes | ||||
Genre : | Classique | ||||
Tonalité : | La mineur | ||||
Arrangeur : Editeur : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Droit d'auteur : | Public Domain | ||||
Ajoutée par magataganm, 17 Déc 2022 Josef Anton Bruckner (1824 – 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies. Ecce sacerdos magnus (Behold a great priest), WAB 13, is an 1885 sacred motet by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. It is a musical setting of the antiphon of the same title. This work was composed at the request of Johann Burgstaller, to be performed at the Linz Cathedral on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the diocese. It was completed by 28 April 1885 and sent to Burgstaller in mid-May. However, the work was not performed at that event, nor at any other event in Bruckner's lifetime. The work, the manuscrit of which is archived at the Wiener Männer-Sangverein, was edited by Viktor Keldorfer (Universal Edition) in 1911,. It was premiered on 21 November 1921 by the Vöcklabruck women's choral society. The antiphon, which was intended as processional music for the entrance of the bishop into the cathedral, was thus designed to be "majestic" and "ceremonial" in character. The work's "most enthralling feature" is "the antiphonal writing of Gabrielian grandeur" in bars 64–66. Kinder calls the piece "one of Bruckner's crowning achievements in the small forms" and "a work of almost barbaric intensity". The trombones, which usually double the low voices, occasionally adopt independent lines. The ritornello on the words "Ideo jurejurando" is expanded and contrasted with episodes "that seem to trace the evolution of church music" in their varied use of texture. In contrast, the harmonic structure is more reflective of Bruckner's own compositional style. The piece includes several references to Bruckner's 1854 Libera me, particularly in the harmonic writing. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_sacerdos_magnus_(Br uckner)) Although originally composed for Mixed Chorus (SSAATTBB), 3 Trombones & Organ, I created this arrangement of the Ecce sacerdos magnus (WAB 13) for Winds (Flute, Oboe, French Horn & Bassoon) and Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Partition centrale : | Ecce sacerdos magnus (5 partitions) | |