Kyrie based on the Adagio of the so-called “Moonlight Sonata”
Version for choir and piano op. 27,2 (1. Satz)
A sacrilege or a stroke of genius? The composer and music director Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772–1840) orchestrated the first movement of the famous “Moonlight Sonata” by Beethoven (transposed to C minor) and added a four-part choral movement to it, which he underlaid with the text of the Kyrie from the Latin mass. The result is as astounding as it is harmonious!
For the present edition for choir and piano – in which Beethoven’s sonata movement functions, so to speak, as a piano score – the C-sharp minor key familiar to pianists has been retained.
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Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
| 1770-1827Ludwig van Beethoven was without doubt one of the most influential composers in the history of music. His works formed the culmination of many genres – particularly instrumental – of Viennese classicism, and laid the foundation for the following decades. But Beethoven’s vocal works set standards too: the late Missa Solemnis is one of the most impressive choral works of its time; but his earlier Mass in C also opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical text, and set the benchmark for the further development in the composition of the mass. And with the final chorus of the Ninth Symphony, the setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy, Beethoven created one of the most frequently-performed and best known choral pieces of all, writing a timeless musical memorial to himself. Personal details
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Gottlob Benedict Bierey
| 1772-1840Gottlob Benedict Bierey was born in Dresden on 25 July 1772. From 1807 to 1828, he was Kapellmeister at the Breslau Theatre, succeeding his predecessor Carl Maria von Weber in this position. He composed almost exclusively for the stage. In addition to his cantatas, choruses and songs, his operas and operettas were particularly popular during his lifetime. Personal details
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You are listening to the piano version of the work, recorded by Deutscher Jugendkammerchor (German Youth Chamber Choir) under Florian Benfer, available on the CD Carus 83.502/00. We offer sheet music editions of Gottlob Benedict Bierey’s “Kyrie after the Adagio from the ‘Moonlight Sonata’” in orchestral version (Carus 28.009/00), piano version (Carus 28.009/03), organ version (Carus 28.009/45), and version for Coro SAAB (Carus 14.403/00).
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