Beethoven - William Drabkin

The Missa solemnis is a document of extraordinary richness from the last decades of Beethoven's creative life. In this compendious and accessible guide, William Drabkin considers the work as a musical expression of the most celebrated text of the Roman Catholic faith, and as an example from a tradition of Mass settings in eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Austria.

EAN: 9780521378314