Gounod: Messe solennelle
St. Cecilia Mass
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- Composer: Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
- Format: Vocal Score
- Instrumentation: SATB Choir, Orchestra
- Work: Messe solennelle (St. Cecilia Mass), CG 56
- Work Language: Latin
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- Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
Description
The appearance of the Messe Saint-Cécile caused a kind of shock. This simplicity, this grandeur, this serene light which rose before the musical world like a breaking dawn, troubled people enormously. . . . at first one was dazzled, then charmed, then conquered. So wrote Camille Saint-Saëns after hearing the premiere of Gounod's 'Messe solennelle en l'honneur de Sainte-Cécile' on St Cecilia's day, 22 November 1855.