Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Bc - Level 3 SKU: CA.2732111 Composed b...(+)
Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2
Vl, 2 Va, Bc - Level 3
SKU: CA.2732111
Composed by Niccolo
Jommelli. Edited by Julia
Rosemeyer. Violin 1.
Sacred vocal music,
Requiem. Part. Duration
48 minutes. Carus Verlag
#CV 27.321/11. Published
by Carus Verlag
(CA.2732111).
ISBN
M-007-25435-3.
Latin.
The
best-known setting of the
Requiem Mass before
Mozart's unfinished work
is by the celebrated
opera composer Niccolo
Jommelli. The Missa pro
defunctis was composed in
1756, during Jommelli's
time as Kapellmeister at
the court of the
Wurttemberg Duke Carl
Eugen, on the occasion of
the death of the Dowager
Duchess Maria Augusta.
The work went on to enjoy
wide circulation and
numerous further
performances. Jommelli
composed it in the
Neapolitan style, with
orchestral forces of just
strings and basso
continuo. The simple but
effective choral
movements are partly
contrapuntal in the stile
antico, and partly with
solo/tutti alternation
and numerous suspended
dissonances, whilst in
the solo parts the opera
composer can be
recognized. This
beautiful sounding Missa
pro defunctis is now
published for the first
time in a critical
edition. Where sections
are missing in Jommelli's
composition, the Appendix
contains settings by
another composer from his
circle, Nicola Sala. *
The best-known setting of
the Requiem Mass before
Mozart * First critical
edition * Effective
choral movements with
numerous suspended
dissonances and
solo/tutti alternation *
Scored for small
instrumental forces of
strings and organ.