Beethoven considered this piece his greatest work...

This Date in History: April 7, 1824 [Piano]( • [Vocal]( • [Choir]( • [Strings]( • [Woodwinds]( • [Brass]( • [Band & Orchestra]( • [Digital]( USE CODE TROMBONE AND SAVE 10% OFF ORDER OVER $10 [On this date in 1824, Beethoven's ''Missa Solemnis'' debuts in St. Petersburg. ]( [Faust - Gounod - Dover Publications]( Hardcover Score with CD On this date in 1824, Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" debuts in St. Petersburg.     The first performance of the Mass, arranged by another of Beethoven’s noble patrons, the Russian Prince Galitsin, took place in St. Petersburg in April 1824. A month later Beethoven gave the first performance of the [Ninth Symphony]( in Vienna, with three movements of the Mass included in the same concert. He never “heard” the work completed in his lifetime. Much of his energy in the last few years of his life was consumed with concern about the many handwritten copies of the Mass that he had offered on subscription in the hope of being handsomely paid for each. Eventually, he assigned the work to the publisher [Schott](, in Mainz, but it did not appear until shortly after his death.   Beethoven described his Missa solemnis as his greatest work several times, a work which, coming "from the heart," was to touch and move audiences. The surviving sources enable us to recognize how intensively and how long he worked on the composition in order to give what he felt was adequate expression to the text. In its length and musical demands, the Missa solemnis goes far beyond typical liturgical settings, and the premiere took place, for good reason, in a concert hall. The chorus plays a key structural role in the work, and in the process has to master some extremely demanding sections.  [Missa solemnis By Ludwig van Beethoven - Orchestra Soli SATB Choir]( Full Score [Missa Solemnis By Ludwig van Beethoven - Vocal Score]( Choir Score [Missa solemnis By Ludwig van Beethoven - Full Score and Parts]( Full Score & Parts [Missa solemnis Arrangement for chamber orchestra (Linckelmann) By Ludwig van Beethoven]( Chamber Orchestra Score   [View the Missa Solemnis in Beethoven's on Handwriting]( [Missa solemnis op. 123 By Ludwig van Beethoven]( Beethoven struggled with the"Missa solemnis"for years, searching for a highly personal way to deal with the words and musical traditions of the Mass Ordinary. In the end he produced a work that leaves no listeners cold - some are puzzled but a great many are deeply moved. The autograph reflects how intensively he worked on the"Missa solemnis"and what a difficult work process it was. Apart from the many corrections there are several torn-out pages. Sometimes Beethoven could only proceed by stitching replacement pages into the manuscript. Reproduced in high-quality four-colour printing, the facsimile replicates the page stubs and fold-out pages, thereby emulating the feel of the original source. Judicious inscriptions with movement headings, continuous pagination, scholarly foliation and measure numbers help readers to find their way more easily in the manuscript. FEATURES OF AUTOGRAPH SCORE - Facsimile of the autograph score held in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz - With a Commentary by Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen and Martina Rebmann Documenta musicologica II/51 - 340 pp. of facsimile and 29 pp. of Commentary (Eng/Ger); - Half-leather binding [LEARN MORE](   [[ratio]    ](   [Charles Gounod] Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist, who is arguably the defining figure in the history of Western music. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in December 1770, but no-one is completely sure on which date. The earliest recorded piece that Beethoven composed is a set of nine piano variations, composed in 1782. Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792, where he met influential composers like Haydn and began to compose in earnest. By 1796, he had begun to suffer from tinnitus and was losing his hearing.   Beethoven died in Vienna on the 26th March 1827 after a long illness that has variously been attributed to alcohol, hepatitis, cirrhosis and pneumonia. [SHOP ALL BEETHOVEN]( Stay Connected: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [TikTok]( [Blog]( [Blog]( Sheet Music Plus | 918 Parker St. | Suite A11 | Berkeley, CA 94710 | United States [Unsubscribe](