Description

The Barenreiter Urtext edition of Beethoven's Mass in C Major has the following features:

Score with the Organ part realized

Critical commentary in English and a bilingual foreword in English and German

Simple piano reduction

Vocal score (BA9039-90) and full score and performance material (BA9039) are for sale.

Two Mass settings are among Beethoven's sacred compositions. Completed and premiered in 1807, the Mass in C Major has been unfairly characterized as a prelude to the great Missa solemnis. However, it is a stand-alone piece of sacred music that is distinctly modern for its time.

Barry Cooper, a Beethoven expert, has consulted a wide range of sources to offer workable answers to the composition's interpretive and musical issues. He was persuaded to include a fully realized organ part by his thorough analysis of the sources.