André Campra (1660 – 1744)

Messe de Mort (1724)

Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra

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Details
For
Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Product Type
Study score
Author / Composer
André Campra
Editor
Montagnier J. P.
Product number
192430
Release Year
2003
Description

Campra's sacred music includes 5 books of petits motets, the polyphonic Missa ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, the Messe de mort, and a large number of grands motets. All these works demonstrate the composer's mastery of theatrical conventions - descriptive instrumental preludes and dramatically representative scenes are not uncommon - and their style is imbued with the worldly, fashionable Italianate spirit of the time. The Messe de mort is today one of the more frequently performed of Campra's sacred w...