Missa Sancti Henrici
by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
SSATB - Sheet Music

SSATB vocal soli, SSATB choir, 2 clarinos/trumpets, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, 2 violins, 3 viola, basso continuo (cello/bassoon/contrabass, organ)

SKU: CA.4067600

Composed by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. Edited by Armin Kircher. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: Paperbound. Sacred music from Salzburg. German title: Missa Sti Henrici. Sacred vocal music, Masses, Latin. Full score. Composed 1696. 120 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 40.676/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4067600).

ISBN 9790007074227. Language: Latin.

The Missa Sancti Henrici is a work of Biber's later years. It is one of his largest and most mature pieces of church music. With the skillful alternation of the "stile antico" and the "stile moderno," as well as the contrast between Solo and Tutti, Biber attained a structure within the individual movements rich in variety. In its original architectural conception, Salzburg Cathedral had four galleries, each with its own organ, on the piers supporting the dome at the crossing. This conception created the spatial prerequisite for double- and polychoral performance tradition on the Venetian model. Biber's magnificent sacred music brought this tradition to a point of culmination in a ,,colossal style" that was unique in transalpine Europe.