Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally, Mr. Hale asks: "Would it be irreverent to say that this Mass as a whole is not a sacred opus, but an ecclesiastical opera?" My reply is that perhaps it is not irreverent for Mr. Hale to say so, but I believe it is untrue. J. W. Wood...
Neithor Mr. Hale nor any other writer can change the fact that Beethoven used to the utmost his great dramatic, poetic and musical genius in the compositior, of the "Missa Solemnis" in order to bring out the great spiritual significance and beauty of the Catholic Mass...
...Boston Herald of March 23, Mr. Philip Hale expends over five paragraphs, and much space in the Symphony program, in attempting to prove his contention that Beethoven's "Missa Solomnis" has little spiritual value after all. To Mr. Hale part of the Mass gives "an effect of infinite labor and vain endoavor and is not an uplifting of the hearer's soul." One almost expects him to say that the music might just as well have been written to the words of almost any Gerruan folk song...
...life he was negligent in his religious duties...nor was he a man to be bound by ritual or creed." If this were true, it would seem strange that Beethoven spent four years on this stupendous musical composition which so clearly and so beautifully expressed the words of the Mass...
...attempt to justify the existence of the "Missa Solemnis". It seems to them that Beethoven not only had the bad taste to be a Catholic, but he also had the unpardonably bad taste of composing one of his very greatest musical compositions for the celebration of High Mass and then what does he do but delicate it to his friend the Archbishop of Olmutz...