Sanctus I
Unison Choir - Sheet Music

Unison choir, 4 violins, basso continuo

SKU: CA.2708700

Composed by Johann Christoph Altnickol. Edited by Uwe Wolf. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition. Sacred vocal music, Mass sections. Full score. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 27.087/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2708700).

ISBN 9790007166014. Key: F major. Text language: Latin.

Ultimately, he is a pupil for whom I need not feel embarrassed, wrote J. S. Bach, summarizing the qualities of his son-in-law to be, J. C: Altnickol. Altnickol's two settings of the Sanctus, based on a Gregorian cantus firmus, are among his few works which have survived. While in the second of these compositions he chose to write a polyphonic choral setting, in the present Sanctus he allows all four voices of the choir to sing unisono, accompanied by a polyphonically treated string ensemble. In both compositions, however, he proves himself to be a contrapuntalist fully worthy of Bach's appraisal.