Messe solennelle, Ste Cécile, vocal/piano score

Urtext edition

Edición de / Edited by: Schellevis, Hans

Sacred works occupy a large part of Charles Gounod?s oeuvre. It was the Messe solennelle en l?honneur de Sainte Cécile that established his fame as a church composer. Its melodic invention and effective handling of the orchestra reveal a close proximity to opera.This Urtext edition is based not only on the original print of 1856 but also on copyists? manuscripts and autograph sources. Rounding off this well-researched Urtext edition are an informative Introduction and a detailed Critical Commentary. The edition is being published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Gounod?s birth.? Gounod?s well-known mass in a new Urtext edition? Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)? Idiomatic piano reduction? In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018