Jörg Widmann (1973)

Messe (2005)

for large orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2005
    • Duration: 43 mn
    • Publisher: Schott
    • Commission: Orchestre phiharmonique de Munich
Detailed formation
  • 4 flutes (also 4 piccolos), 4 oboes (also 1 English horn), 4 clarinets (also 1 bass clarinet, 1 contrabass clarinet), 4 bassoons (also 2 contrabassoons), 4 horns, 4 trumpets [dont une en ut, derrière la scène] , 4 trombones (also 2 bass trombones), tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists, guitar [aussi bandurria, 2 guitares espagnoles dont une scordatura, 1 guitare à cordes d'acier, 1 cithare] , harp, piano, accordion, 16 violins, 14 second violins, 12 violas, 10 cellos, 8 five-strings double basses

Premiere information

  • Date: 5 June 2005
    Location:

    Allemagne, Munich, Gasteig


    Performers:

    l'Orchestre philharmonique de Munich, direction : Christian Thielemann.

Table of contents

  • I. Kyrie (Introitus - Monodia (Sequenza ad una voce) - Interludium I -
    Contrapunctus I (a due voci) - Interludium II -
    Contrapunctus II (a tre voci) - Interludium III)
  • II. Gloria (Antiphon [Echo-Choral] - Contrapunctus III)
  • III. Crucifixus
  • IV. Et Resurrexit (Contrapunctus IV - Exodus)