Format : Sheet music
Kyrie-Gloria-Messe (Lutherische Messe). Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Neben der h-Moll-Messe existieren von Bach bekanntlich vier weitere, kleinere Messkompositionen, die sog. Lutherischen oder Kyrie-Gloria-Messen. Trotz ihrer hohen musikalischen Qualitäten, stehen sie oft im Schatten anderer Kirchenwerke Bachs. Mit ihrer jeweils sechssätzigen Anlage [bis 'Cum sancto spiritu'] hatten sie ihre spezifische liturgische Stellung im Gottesdienst der Bach-Zeit. Die Messen bestehen zum größten Teil aus Parodien, deren ursprüngliche Musik meist aus Kantaten stammt und die Bach nach bekannter Manier - dem neuen Werkkontext entsprechend - teilweise erheblich umgearbeitet hat. Ulrich Leisinger hat die vier Werke für Carus in neuen kritischenAusgaben vorgelegt. / Messe / Répertoire / Solistes SAB, Choeur SATB, 2 HautboiSBasson, 2 Cor
SKU: CA.3070106
ISBN 9790007040987. Language: Latin.
The Jena organist Johann Nikolaus Bach, the eldest son of Johann Christoph Bach, was long believed to have been the xomposer of the Missa brevis Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr, but this is now known to be a work by the Meiningen Court Kapellmeister Johann Ludwig Bach. The only composition undoubtedly by Johann Nikolaus Bach is the boisterous student music Der Jenaische Wein- und Bierrufer. Score available separately - see item CA.3070100.
SKU: CA.3070105
ISBN 9790007040970. Language: Latin.
SKU: CA.3550300
ISBN 9790007165161. Text language: Latin.
Particularly during the early 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach concentrated intensely on studying the compositional technique of strict vocal polyphony. As an inspiration, he studied the works of older masters, copying them and, for the most part, performing them as well. A set of single parts for the Missa canonica by Francesco Gasparini in an instrumentation by Bach were recently discovered in the collection of the former Ephoralbibliothek Weissenfels; some of the parts are in Bach's own handwriting. Gasparini was esteemed in Germany particularly as a master of elaborate counterpoint and audacious harmonic writing. Bach amended the music text with a view to certain aspects of performance practice, clearly following a very specific concept of sound organization. His interest in strict counterpoint was paralleled by a tangible re-orientation in Bach's own compositional technique at the beginning of the 1740s. Francesco Gasparini's Missa canonica therefore served as a practical model for the highly developed art of canon writing and the strict polyphony in Bach's late works, as we encounter them, for example, in the B minor Mass.
