Messe für den Gründonnerstag
| Messe für den Gründonnerstag | |
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| Mass by Anton Bruckner | |
The young Bruckner
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| Key | F major |
| Catalogue | WAB 9 |
| Form | Missa brevis |
| Composed | 1844–1845: Kronstorf |
| Dedication | Ad maiorem Dei gloriam |
| Published | 1932: Regensburg |
| Movements | 8 (2 lost) |
| Vocal | SATB choir |
The Messe für den Gründonnerstag , WAB 9, is a missa brevis composed by Anton Bruckner in 1844.
Bruckner composed the Messe für den Gründonnerstag (Mass for Maundy Thursday), a Choral-Messe in F major (WAB 9) for mixed choir a cappella, in 1844 while he was a schoolteacher's assistant in Kronstorf. Bruckner dedicated the work A.M.D.G.
The work, the manuscript of which is stored in the archive of Wels, was first published in band I, pp. 258–274 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. Thereafter, only the Gradual Christus factus est was issued by Anton Böhm & Sohn in 1931, so that the work was listed by Grasberger as Christus factus est, WAB 9.
The full setting of the mass is edited in Band XXI/5 of the Gesamtausgabe.
The work is divided into six parts:
Total duration: about 10 minutes.
On the front page of Bruckner's manuscript is written:
This Missa brevis exhibits as the previous Kronstorfer Messe relationships to Palestrina's style. It contained originally no Kyrie or Gloria, but included the Gradual Christus factus est and the Offertory Dextera Domini proper for the feast. The extra fugated Kyrie and Gloria, which were composed in 1845, have been lost.
The text of Dextera Domini is derived from Psalm 117 in the Vulgata ().
Dextera Domini fecit virtutem,
Dextera Domini exaltavit me.
Non moriar, sed vivam, et narrabo opera Domini.
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