Gioacchino Rossini
Petite Messe solennelle

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Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Orchestra
Composer Gioacchino Rossini
Series Bärenreiter Urtext
Editor Patricia B. Brauner Philip Gossett
Difficulty Level
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Edition Choral Score (Urtext) Download
Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
Order no. BA10501-91-DL

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Language: Latin
Pages: 60
Release: 20.10.2025
Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Romantic), Sacred & Church Music, Music for Mourning, Mass
Accompaniment: Orchestra
ISMN: 9790006639113

The "Petite Messe solennelle" is a very late work by Rossini. He composed it between 1863 and 1864 at the age of 71 as a commission for Countess Louise Pillet-Will for the inauguration of her private chapel, where the work was premiered in March 1864. Alongside the "Stabat mater", the mass is one of the composer's most important works of church music.

The unusual instrumentation with two pianos and harmonium is very much in the 18th century Neapolitan harpsichord tradition, which was cultivated in France at the time of Rossini. It is a deliberate contradiction to the style of large-scale sacred compositions by Liszt and Bruckner, for example. Rossini explains the subsequent orchestral version of the work in 1867 primarily with the fear that other composers might overload the mass instrumentally in later arrangements.

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