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

  • Edited by Keith Chapin, Cardiff University, David Wyn Jones, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    Beethoven Studies 4
    Published online:
    26 September 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 189-208

  • Summary

    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.