Title: Mass in C Major Artist: Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam Label: Naxos Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 747313401772 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2020-04-10 Number of Discs: 1
The custom of marking the name-day of Princess Esterhazy with a newly composed Mass began in the 1790s and for many years was carried out by Joseph Haydn. In 1807 Beethoven was commissioned and responded with his Mass in C major. Coolly received at court, it is a celebratory work of large-scale brilliance. The cantata Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt is set to Goethe's poems and contrasts calm with exuberance. In 1803 Beethoven set two numbers from Vestas Feuer, written by Emanuel Schikaneder, the librettist of Mozart's die Zauberflote.
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