Anton Bruckner - Kronstorfer Messe, WAB 146 (1844)

Описание: Josef Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer best known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.

Please support my channel:
https://ko-fi.com/bartjebartmans

Kronstorfer Messe, WAB 146 (1843-44)

1. Kyrie (0:00)
2. Sanctus (1:38)
3. Benedictus (3:13)
4. Agnus Dei (4:20)

Latvian Radio Choir conducted by Sigvards Kļava

Bruckner composed the Kronstorfer Messe, WAB 146, in 1843–1844, while he was a schoolteacher's assistant in Kronstorf. This Choral-Messe in D minor for mixed choir a cappella was presumably intended for the Lenten season.

The work, the manuscript of which was archived in the St. Florian Monastery was premiered by Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter on 1 December 1974 in the church of the monastery. The work is put in Band XXI/41 of the Gesamtausgabe.

This Missa brevis, also called Messe ohne Gloria [und Credo], exhibits relationships to Palestrina's style. The mass survives only in a fragmentary state, without Credo. The manuscript, with, on the front page, an autograph indication "Sine Gloria", contains two blank pages with an autograph indication that they were to contain a Credo in F major.

Alike the contemporaneous Asperges me in F major (WAB 4), the Agnus Dei in F major contains audacious modulations.