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Gregorio Ballabenes Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)
Florian Bassani
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Neither Spem in alium, the widely acclaimed songe of fortie partes by Thomas Tallis, nor Alessandro Striggios forty-part Mass is the largest-scale counterpoint work in Western music. The actual winner is Gregorio Ballabene, a relatively unknown Roman maestro di cappella, a contemporary of Giovanni Paisiello, Joseph Haydn and Luigi Boccherini, who composed in forty-eight parts for twelve choirs. His Mass saw only a public rehearsal and was never performed liturgically despite all of Ballabenes efforts to promote it. On closer inspection, however, the work deserves special consideration as a piece of outstanding combinatory creativity the product of a talent able to conceive, structure and realise a project of colossal dimensions. It might even be claimed that if Charles Burney had gained knowledge of it, all derogatory comments by nineteenth-century music historians would not have succeeded in extinguishing the interest of later generations. Ballabenes Mass has remained completely unstudied until today, even though the score survives in prominent collections. This study offers, for the first time, a historical and analytical perspective on this overlooked manifestation of a very individual musical intelligence.
- Illustratör: black and white 21 Illustrations 7 Line drawings, black and white 14 Halftones black and white
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9781032128924
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 120
- Utgivningsdatum: 2021-12-14
- Förlag: Routledge