Charles Gounod
Messe solennelle - Ste Cécile
für Soli, Chor, Orchester und obligate Orgel
Charles Gounod
Messe solennelle - Ste Cécile
für Soli, Chor, Orchester und obligate Orgel
- Instrumentation Soloist, Mixed Choir (SATB), Organ and Orchestra
- Composer Charles Gounod
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
- Editor Hans Schellevis
- Edition Piano Reduction
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA8966-90
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Description:
Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod's oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effective handling of the orchestra reveal a close proximity to opera.This Urtext edition is based not only on the original print of 1856 but also on copyists' manuscripts and autograph sources. Rounding off this well-researched Urtext edition are an informative Introduction and a detailed Critical Commentary. The edition is being published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Gounod's birth.* Gounod's well-known mass in a new Urtext edition* Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)* Idiomatic piano reduction* In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018