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9 - Composing with a Dictionary: Sounding the Word in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2020

Keith Chapin
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
David Wyn Jones
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
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While the unprecedented ambition of Beethoven Missa solemnis is routinely acknowledged by scholars, it is also characterized by outlooks that admit to a certain perplexity. One kind of primary evidence for the composer’s attitude to text setting in the work has been ignored: the extensive use of two contemporaneous printed volumes, a German translation of the Ordinary by Ignatius Aurelis Feßler and a Latin–German dictionary by Immanuel Gerhard Scheller. Study of these sources not only re-affirms the centrality of the text for Beethoven but also reveal the origins of many of the very individual, even eccentric, responses to particular words and phrases.

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Beethoven Studies 4 , pp. 189 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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