Kronstorfer Messe
| Kronstorfer Messe | |
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| Mass by Anton Bruckner | |
The young Bruckner
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| Key | D minor |
| Catalogue | WAB 146 |
| Form | Missa brevis |
| Composed | 1843–1844: Kronstorf |
| Performed | 1 December 1974: St. Florian Monastery |
| Published | 1984 |
| Recorded | 1998 |
| Movements | 4 |
| Vocal | SATB choir |
Anton Bruckner composed the Kronstorfer Messe, WAB 146, in 1843–1844, while he was a schoolteacher's assistant in Kronstorf. This Choral-Messe in D minor for mixed choir a cappella, which was presumably intended for the Lenten season.
The work, the manuscript of which was archived in the St. Florian Monastery, was premiered by Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter on 1 December 1974 in the church of the monastery. The work is put in Band XXI/41 of the Gesamtausgabe.
The work is divided into four parts:
Total duration: about 5 minutes.
This Missa brevis, which exhibits relationships to Palestrina's style, survives only in a fragmentary state, without Gloria or Credo. The manuscript, with, on the front page, an autograph indication "Sine Gloria", contains two blank pages with an autograph indication that they were to contain a Credo in F major.
Alike the contemporaneous Asperges me in F major (WAB 4), the Agnus Dei in F major contains audacious modulations.
The Sanctus is re-used in a slightly modified setting for that of the Messe für den Gründonnerstag.
There is a single, long out-of-print recording of the Mass:
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