Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Missa St. Bernardi von Offida Hob. XXII:10 "Heilig-Messe"
4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
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- 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
- Product Type
- Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Joseph Haydn
- Product number
- 116428
- Difficulty Level
- 3
Description
Bernard of Offida, 1604–1694, was a Capuchin monk, whose saintly life and devotion to the sick and poor, caused him to be beatified by Pope Pius VI on 19 May, 1795. St. Bernard’s name day falls on the 11th of September (a Saturday in 1797), and it is generally thought that Haydn combined doing honour to the Capuchin monk with the production of a new Mass for his patron the day thereafter.
Apparently later performances in Eisenstadt added horns to double the trumpets in the tuttis, and – just ...