BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van Missa composita, et Serenissimo ac Eminentissimo Domino Domino Rudolpho Johanni Caesareo Principi et Archiduci Austriae...profundissima cum veneratione dedicata...Opus 123 ["Missa solemnis"] Mainz / Paris / Antwerp, Schott 1827.
Folio. Title, 299 pp., (1) p. (blank). Lithogr. Title, music engraved throughout (pl.-no. 2346). Bound in in facsimile: 1 leaf subscribers'list. Modern leather (slightly rubbed only). First edition of the full score. Following Kinsi/Halm the subscribers' was inserted only in the few subscribed copies. Even Beethoven himself counted "Missa solemnis" among his best works: "...as difficult as it is for me to talk about myself, nevertheless I regard this as my finest piece, my fee being 1000 fl. in C.M." (on 10.3.1824 at Schott / Brandenburg Nr. 1787). The premiere took place 7th April in the same year in St. Petersburg; the work had taken a good 4 years, and by the time the work was handed over to Erzherzog Rudolph, to whom it was dedicated, the occasion for which it had originally been conceived lay three years in the past, i.e. the High Mass for the inaugeration of Rudolph as Archbishop of Olmütz. For this reason the "Missa solemnis" has been able to achieve a regular place in the concert hall, rather less as a piece for the church service. The outer margins slightly browned or damp-stained, a very well preserved copy. Kinski / Halm S. 364; CPM 4, 239; BSB/Mu. 426; Hob./Coll. 496; Hirsch IV, 392. Not in Cat. Wolffheim.
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