PARTITIONS GRATUITES : QUATUOR à CORDES ET PETIT ORCHESTRE

String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)

SKU: BA.BA10576-01

Composed by Bohuslav Martinu. Edited by Aleš Brezina. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition IV/3/2. Complete edition, Score, anthology. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10576_01. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA10576-01).

ISBN 9790260108363. 33.3 x 26 cm inches. Language: CS, Text Language: CZ. Preface: Brezina, Aleš.

ThePetite Messe solennelleis the finest work of Rossini's late years. He composed it between 1863 and 1864 at the age of 71 as a commission for Countess Louise Pillet -Will for the consecration of her private chapel, where the work received its first performance in March 1864. Together with theStabat mater, the mass is one of the composer's mostimportant sacred works.

The unusual instrumentation with two pianos and harmonium is entirely in keeping with the Neapolitan keyboard tradition of the 18th century which was cultivated in France in Rossini's day. It forms a distinct contrast to the style of large-scale sacred compositions as written by, for example, Liszt and Bruckner. Rossini explained that he wrote the later orchestral version of the work dating from 1867 out of concern that if he did not do this, other composers might orchestrate the mass too heavily in later arrangements.

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