Beethoven Mass in C Vocal Score

Vocal Scores for Beethoven's Mass in C

 

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his Mass in C major, Op. 86, to a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II in 1807.

 

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Rehearsal recordings to help learn your voice part (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) are described below.

 

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The Novello edition of Beethoven's Mass in C is in Latin for SATB

 

      

 

 

The Breitkopf edition of Beethoven's Mass in C is in German

 

 

Catalogue Number: BRK10581

ISMN: 9790004182642

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The Edition Peters of Beethoven's Mass in C is in Latin for SATB 

Catalogue Number: EPHW1105

ISMN: 9790014006594

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Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his Mass in C major, Op. 86, to a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II in 1807. In fulfilling this commission, Beethoven was extending a tradition established by Joseph Haydn, who following his return from England in 1795 had composed one mass per year for the Esterházy family, to celebrate the name day of the Prince's wife. Haydn had ceased this tradition with the failure of his health in 1802. Prince Nikolaus did not appreciate the mass, causing Beethoven to leave his house in a rage. Charles Rosen, in his The Classical Style, has called the episode Beethoven's "most humiliating public failure". The mass is appreciated by critics (such as Rosen), but is probably one of the least often performed of Beethoven's larger works.Of the work, Michael Moore writes "While [it] is often overshadowed by the immense Missa Solemnis, written some fifteen years later, it has a directness and an emotional content that the latter work sometimes lacks."  The widely-read Penguin Guide to Compact Discs (2004 edition) forthrightly calls the work a "long-underrated masterpiece."

 

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