Giacomo Puccini Messa a 4 voci con orchestra

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini, III/2 SC 6

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Puccini composed his Messa a 4 voci con orchestra  ("Messa di Gloria") in 1878–1880. The musical quality, the energy, and the freshness of this youthful work led the composer to quote from his Mass in later operas, ensuring an ever-growing popularity for the work after its rediscovery in 1952.

This scholarly-critical edition of Puccini’s only mass is based on the Urtext of the "Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini". The Edizione has been published by the international research institute "Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini" since 2013. 

An examination of the autograph score has led to numerous corrections being made in the "Edizione Nazionale" compared with the old-established music text of this work. As well as this, Puccini’s orchestral amendments in the Benedictus and his new arrangement of the tenor aria "Gratias agimus" from the Gloria, both dating from 1893, have been taken into consideration.

Thanks to an arrangement by J. Linckelmann (Carus 56.001/50), it is possible to perform the work in smaller settings.
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  • Kyrie

    Kyrie (Coro)

    Kyrie eleison.
    Christe eleison.
    Kyrie eleison.

    Gloria

    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Coro)

    Gloria in excelsis Deo.
    Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
    Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te.

    Gratias agimus tibi (Solo T)

    Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.
    Gloria in excelsis Deo (Coro)
    Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.
    Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe.
    Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.
    Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis,
    suscipe deprecationem nostram, miserere nobis.
    Quoniam tu solus Sanctus,
    tu solus Dominus,

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  • Abridged Foreword of the Edition Carus 40.645/03

    Dieter Schickling
    Translation: J. Bradford Robinson

    The Messa a 4 con orchestra, by Giacomo Puccini, is the composer’s largest non-operatic work. He finished the piece in the summer of 1880 (the Credo had already been written and performed two years earlier), almost at the same time that he completed his studies at the Istituto musicale «G. Pacini», a sort of musical secondary school located in his native Lucca. The complete work received its premiere on 12 July 1880 at a church service for the feast of Lucca’s patron saint, San Paolino.

    Notwithstanding the high praise bestowed upon the Messa by the local newspaper, no sooner had Puccini taken his degree than he declined to follow the path laid out for him by his family and the town luminaries. He left Lucca to continue his studies in Milan at the most prestigious conservatory in Italy and to pursue an entirely different dream: to become an opera composer in the wake of his idol, Richard Wagner. After some initial difficulties this dream eventually came true. There is surely a touch of self-detached irony in the fact – and the way – that Puccini borrowed two movements from the Messa for use in his

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  • Gekürztes Vorwort der Ausgabe Carus 40.645/03

    Dieter Schickling

    Die Messa a 4 con orchestra ist das umfangreichste Werk Giacomo Puccinis außerhalb der Opern. Ihre Komposition (unter Integration eines schon zwei Jahre früher geschriebenen und aufgeführten Credo) wurde im Sommer 1880 abgeschlossen, fast gleichzeitig mit dem Ende von Puccinis Schulzeit im Istituto musicale «G. Pacini», einer Art musikalischem Gymnasium seiner Vaterstadt Lucca. Die Uraufführung des vollständigen Werks fand am 12. Juli 1880 während eines Gottesdienstes am Fest des Heiligen Paolino statt, des Patrons von Lucca.

    Doch sogleich nach seinem Schulabschluss und obwohl die Messa in der lokalen Presse hoch gelobt wurde, verweigerte sich Puccini der von seiner Familie und den städtischen Honoratioren vorgezeichneten Laufbahn. Er verließ Lucca, um in Mailand am renommiertesten Konservatorium Italiens weiter zu studieren – mit einem ganz anderen Traum: Opernkomponist in der Nachfolge des vergötterten Richard Wagner zu werden, was ihm nach einigen Anfangsmühen ja schließlich auch gelang. Es entbehrt gewiss nicht der distanzreichen Selbstironie, dass und wie Puccini zwei Sätze der Messa in späteren Opern verwendete: Das

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  • Giacomo Puccini came from a dynasty of church musicians who worked in the Tuscan city of Lucca. His Messa a 4 con orchestra, premiered there in 1880, seemed to point him toward a career in the same direction, but directly after this, he went to Milan Conservatoire with the aim of becoming an opera composer. His only independent orchestral works were written there as student works – the Preludio sinfonico (1882) and Capriccio sinfonico (1883), as well as some of his 16 complete surviving songs for voice and piano (Canti), which he composed, with frequent references to his operas, almost throughout his career. He achieved a breakthrough as an opera composer with Manon Lescaut (1893); between 1893 and 1904 he composed La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, which remain his most frequently-performed works today. In recent years there has been a growing realisation that Puccini's entire output requires reappraisal. And so, he has increasingly come to be understood as a musician searching for a way forward into the modern age. Personal details
  • Paul Horn war ein deutscher Kirchenmusiker, Organist, Komponist und Musikwissenschaftler. Er studierte Kirchenmusik und Orgel an der Evangelischen Kirchenmusikschule Esslingen am Neckar bei Hans-Arnold Metzger und Musikwissenschaft, Theologie und Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen. Seine berufliche Laufbahn begann als Kantor an der Evangelischen Michaelskirche in Stuttgart-Degerloch. 1954 wurde er Kantor an der Evangelischen Stadtkirche Ravensburg, eine Position, die er bis zu seiner Pensionierung innehatte. Als Musikwissenschaftler arbeitete Horn bis ins hohe Alter eng mit Carus zusammen. So stammen zahlreiche Carus-Klavierauszüge aus seiner Feder. Personal details

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