Messe in Es, op. 109 CREDO - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (Guide For SATB)

Messe in Es, op. 109 CREDO - Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (Guide For SATB)
The Mass in E flat major Cantus Missae (op. 109) (full name Cantus Missae ex octo modulatione vocum concinnatus) is a mass setting for double choir (SATB/SATB) a cappella by Josef Rheinberger. He composed it between 13 and 18 January 1878, with Credo, Sanctus and Benedictus written in a single day. On February 20, Rheinberger dedicated the work to the newly elected Pope Leo XIII. On New Year's Day 1879, the Mass was performed for the first time in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche in Munich, together with Rheinberger's four-part offertory Tui sunt coeli. The first edition was published in 1879 by the music publisher Josef Aibl in Munich.
Rheinberger's pupil Joseph Renner Jr. wrote about the Mass op. 109, it is "probably the most important eight-part mass of modern times" and forms "the highlight among Rheinberger's a capella works".
The music historian Otto Ursprung (1879-1960) described the work as "the most beautiful pure vocal mass of the 19th century".
The musicologist Peter Büssers attested to the mass's "always catchy and vocal melody, stemming from Gregorian chant, partly song-like combined with all the compositional achievements of late Romanticism" and said that the whole thing was reminiscent of "a Palestrina composing in the 19th century".
Pope Leo XIII awarded Rheinberger the Order of St. Gregory for his composition in July 1879.
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