Description
Choral score
Language: Latin
Instrumentation: SATB/SATB a cappella
Difficulty: difficult
Duration: 25:00
Minimum order quantity: 10 copies
The “Cantus missae” – according to Otto Ursprung the “most beautiful pure vocal mass of the 19th century” – is Rheinberger’s only double-choir mass composition. It is characterized by the recourse to compositional techniques of early classical vocal polyphony and the simultaneous use of functional harmony and expressive, song-like voice leading. Rheinberger was awarded the Order of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII for this mass in 1879.
“CANTUS MISSAE”
Year of composition: 1878