Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)
- Author: Bassani, Florian
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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Twelve-choir performances
- 2. The presence of a glorious past
- 3. Burney's 'Mass'
- 4. Ballabene and his Mass in Martini's correspondence
- 5. The 'rehearsal' and its outcome
- 6. Consequences for Ballabene's professional advancement
- 7. Martini's approbation
- 8. Important Compositional Features
- 9. Pitoni's Mass
- 10. Ballabene and the twilight of an era
- 11. Fame and posthumous fame
- 12. The history of the score
- 13. Unfortunate anachronism or accomplishment of the Roman Baroque?
- Appendix I: Documents (in chronological order)
- Appendix II: Documented copies of Ballabene's Mass
- Bibliography