Missa Brevis (Bernstein)
Leonard Bernstein's last complete choral work / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Missa Brevis by Leonard Bernstein is a musical setting of parts of the mass ordinary in Latin for a mixed a cappella choir with countertenor solo and percussion. It is also Bernstein's last complete choral work, due to his death a year after its completion in 1989.
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Missa Brevis | |
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Missa brevis by Leonard Bernstein | |
Related | based on incidental music for Anouilh's play The Lark |
Occasion | retirement of Robert Shaw from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra |
Text | Missa senza credo |
Language | Latin |
Composed | 1988 (1988) |
Performed | 1989 (1989): Atlanta |
Movements | six |
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