Missa Salisburgensis (Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von)

		Movements/Sections 5 Composition Year MS dated to 1654–1696 Genre Categories Masses; Religious works; For 16 voices, 2 mixed choruses, 2 organs, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the organ; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Latin language

Sheet Music

• Scores (8)

Scores

 Kyrie
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 Gloria
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 Credo
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 Sanctus
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 Agnus Dei
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Editor:

Guido Adler (1855-1941)

Publisher Info.:

Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich, Band 20.
Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1903. Plate Dm.d.Tk.in Oest.X.1.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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 Full Score, Kyrie only (Preview)
*#30214 - 0.99MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - !N/!N/!N* - 460x⇩

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Philip Legge (2009/4/5)

 Vocal Score, Kyrie only (Preview)
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Philip Legge (2009/4/5)

 Orchestral Parts, Kyrie only (Preview)
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Philip Legge (2009/4/5)

Editor:

Philip Legge (1972*)

Publisher Info.:

Choral Public Domain Library, 1 January 2008

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Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 [tag/del]

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Edited by Philip Legge from Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich, Band 20, Missa Salisburgensis and Plaudite tympana (attributed to Orazio Benevoli), ed. Guido Adler (1855–1941), 1903.
Only the first movement, Kyrie eleison, is currently available from the editor. No further movements (Gloria, Credo, Sanctus & Benedictus, Agnus Dei) are planned to be typeset in the immediate future. The festal hymn composed for performance with the mass, Plaudite tympana, is however available.

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General Information

Work Title	Missa Salisburgensis
Alternative Title	Missa Salisburgensis à 54

Composer	Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
Opus/Catalogue Number	C App. 101
Key	C major
Movements/Sections	5
Year/Date of Composition	MS dated to 1654–1696
First Performance	1682 – Salzburg
First Publication	1903
Language	Latin (and Greek, Kyrie)
Average Duration	36’
Piece Style	Baroque
Instrumentation	Voices: 4 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses + 2 mixed choruses (SSAATTBB, SSAATTBB) Orchestra: 4 recorders, 2 oboes + 2 cornettos, 10 trumpets, 3 trombones + 2 timpani (4 drums) + 2 organs + 4 violins, 8 violas + continuo

Misc. Comments

Now thought to have been composed for the 1100th anniversary of the founding of the archbishopric of Salzburg in 1682, the colossal score of the Missa Salisburgensis (the folios are 82×57 cm in size!) was rediscovered in the late 19th century. Study of the watermarks in the manuscript dates the work to between 1654 and 1696, making for a plausible ascription of the work to Orazio Benevoli (1605–72) on chronological grounds only, and possibly Andreas Hofer (c.1629–1684) and Heinrich Biber (1644–1704) on stylistic grounds as well. The work could not appear to have been composed as early as 1628 for the consecration of Salzburg cathedral, as Guido Adler mistakenly presumed when publishing the first modern score in 1903.

Only as late as the 1970s did Ernst Hintermaier firmly link the composer of this mass to another similar work, the Missa Bruxellensis, the MS of which has been dated between 1696 and 1704 by similar study of its watermarks. Aside from numerous compositional traits observed by Eric Thomas Chafe that these two works share in common with Biber’s other firmly authenticated masses, the most probable ascription based on the chronology and documentary evidence for the Salzburg and Brussels masses points to Biber.

The layout of the performers is as follows:

Choro I : “8 voci in concerto”, SSAATTBB soli and SSAATTBB ripieno, with first organ

Choro II : 2 violins, 4 violas

Choro III : 4 flauti (recorders), 2 oboes, and 2 clarini (high trumpets)

Choro IV : 2 cornettos, 3 trombones

Choro V : “8 voci in concerto”, SSAATTBB soli and SSAATTBB ripieno

Choro [VI] : 2 violins, 4 violas

I. Loco : 4 trumpets, with timpani in C and G

II. Loco : 4 trumpets, with timpani in C and G

Continuo, with second organ (for choir V)

Masses by Heinrich Biber
C 3, Missa Christi resurgentis à 20 (1674; in C) C 4, Missa ex B à 6 (in B♭) C 5, Missa quadragesimalis à 4 (in D minor) C 2, Missa catholica (after 1680; in C) incomplete C App. 101, Missa Salisburgensis à 54 (1682?; in C)	C 1, Missa Alleluia à 26 (between 1690 and 1698; in C) C 7, Requiem à 15 (after 1690; in A) C 8, Requiem ex F con terza min[ore] à 14 (after 1692; in F minor) C 6, Missa S Henrici à 19 (1696; in C) C App. 100, Missa Bruxellensis à 23 (around 1700; in C)
C App. 98, Missa in contrapuncto à 4 (in D minor; also attrib. to Carl Biber)	C App. 99, Missa in Albis (1668; in C; doubtful)