SATB choir, basso continuo SKU: CA.2708800
Composed by Johann Christoph Altnickol. Edited by Uwe Wolf. Arranged by Angelika Tasler. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition. Sacred vocal music, Mass sections. Full score. 8 pages. Duration 2 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 27.088/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2708800). ISBN 9790007165987. Key: F major. Text language: Latin.
Ultimately, he is a pupil for whom I need not feel embarrassed, wrote J. S. Bach, summarizing the qualities of his son-in-law to be, J. C: Altnickol. Altnickol's two settings of the Sanctus, based on a Gregorian cantus firmus, are among his few works which have survived. While in the second of these compositions he chose to write a polyphonic choral setting, in the first Sanctus he allows all four voices of the choir to sing unisono, accompanied by a polyphonically treated string ensemble. In both compositions, however, he proves himself to be a contrapuntalist fully worthy of Bach's appraisal.
