Messe solennelle, H 20 (Berlioz, Hector)

		Movements/Sections 14 Composition Year spring–December 1824 rev. after July 1825, before May 1828 (Resurrexit) Genre Categories Masses; Religious works; For 3 voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For mixed chorus, orchestra; For chorus with orchestra; Latin language

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Resurrexit, H 20B

 Complete Orchestral Score
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Editor:

Charles Malherbe (1853–1911)
Felix Weingartner (1863–1942)

Publisher Info.:

Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie IV, Band 7.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 23

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	Resurrexit, revised version, H 20B
Alternative Title	Messe solennelle, H 20A

Composer	Berlioz, Hector
Opus/Catalogue Number	H 20
Key	G minor – E♭ major
Movements/Sections	14
Year/Date of Composition	spring–December 1824 rev. after July 1825, before May 1828 (Resurrexit)
First Performance	Paris, St-Roch, 10 July 1825, cond. Henri Valentino
First Publication	1902 (Resurrexit), 1994 (complete work)
Language	Latin
Average Duration	A: 55’ B: 7’
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Vl. I–II, Alto, Fl. I–II, Hb. I–II, Cl. I–II en Ut, Cors I–IV, Tromp. I–II, Trb. I–III (ATB), Serpente, Buccin (or Ophicléide), Bns. I–II, Vc, Basse, Tymp, Cymb, Tamtam, P. fl. optional, Harpes optional

Misc. Comments

Performed twice in the 1820s (the second time conducted by Berlioz himself, in St-Eustache on 22 November 1827), aside from the revised version of the Resurrexit, the parts and vocal scores of the Messe solennelle were destroyed by Berlioz, and the autograph manuscript of the full score given to a Belgian violinist and thought to be lost. The full score was only rediscovered in an organ gallery in Antwerp in 1991, and the work first published in the New Berlioz Edition in 1994, following the first modern performances and recordings late in 1993.

Section Listing

1. Introduction – attacca:
2. Kyrie
3. Gloria
4. Gratias
5. Quoniam
6. Credo
7. Incarnatus
8. Crucifixus
9. Resurrexit
10. Motet pour l’offertoire: Quis, similis tui?
11. Sanctus
12. O salutaris hostia
13. Agnus Dei
14. Domine, salvum fac regem nostrum

Publication History

• Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d. (1902), as part of Hector Berlioz Werke (1900–07), Serie IV, Band VII, edited by Charles Malherbe and Felix Weingartner; Resurrexit (revised version) only.
• Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1991, BA 5452/I, as part of New Berlioz Edition (1967–2005), Volume 12a, edited by Julian Rushton. Resurrexit (revised version) only.
• Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1994, BA 5463, as part of New Berlioz Edition (1967–2005), Volume 23, edited by Hugh Macdonald. First complete full score.

Vocal score, BA 5463a, with piano reduction by Eike Wernhard.

External Links

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