Great night of music making with Oratorio Society of New Jersey. #grateful
“Don’t cry for me, for I go where music was born.” J. S. Bach upon his death
BACH LUTHERAN MASSES
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Lutheran mass was composed in parts, with the first section, the Missa, written in 1733 to seek patronage from the new Catholic Elector of Saxony. Bach later expanded and completed this work into the complete Mass in B Minor between 1748 and 1749, primarily using existing music from his cantatas in a technique called parody. The Mass was not performed in its entirety during Bach’s lifetime and was first published in 1845, with its first public performance in 1859.
BEETHOVEN MASS IN C
The C Major Mass was commissioned by Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy (II) to commemorate the name day of his wife, Marie von Liechtenstein. Beethoven’s motivation for writing it, then, was less related to his own religious feeling. Because of this, the style of this mass was similar to that of Haydn’s masses.
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