Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 1704)
Messe de Minuit pour Noël H 9
Midnight Mass for Christmas
5 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
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Details
- For
- 5 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
- Product Type
- Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- Editor
- Hans Ryschawy
- Product number
- 662065
- Languages
- latin
Description
Scoring: Soli SST(A)TB, Coro ST(A)TB, 2 Fl, 2 Vl, 2 Va (Vl, Va), Bc
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Christmas mass, the Messe de Minuit, is throughly in the French tradition, celebrating the joyful news of the Birth of Christ with cheerful happiness. In this midnight mass, composed in 1694, ten traditional French Christmas hymns have been rearranged, lending the work a dance-like energy alongside charming tone coloring. In independent movements the relatively small instrumental ensemble consisting...