Mr Cogito Thinks Back Upon A Thirty-Six Year Old Musical Quarterly Journal Article About Beethoven's Missa Solemnis And The Humanities

WARREN KIRKENDALE

NEW ROADS TO OLD IDEAS IN BEETHOVEN'S MISSA SOLEMNIS

Musical Quarterly 1970 [October] LVI: 665-701; doi:10.1093/mq/LVI.4.665
Published in Honor of the Bicentennial of Beethoven's birth.

Oxford Journals > Humanities > Musical Quarterly

http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/content/volLVI/issue4/index.dtl

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[Note to self: Beethoven and the history of ideas including Boethius, Gregorian Chant [Dorian mode], fugal procedure, the Salzburg Masses of Heinrich Biber, J.S. Bach's Advent Cantatas [solo flute and violin parts], Handel's The Messiah, the great late Masses of Josef Haydn [Missa in Tempore Belli], late Beethoven S.Q.'s, and Austrian Imperial military music.]

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The Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op. 123 was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819-1823 and was first performed on April 7, 1824 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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