Missa solemnis

The Latin term Missa Solemnis (also solennis ) means " solemn Mass " and refers to a particularly festive and extensive setting with appropriate occupation of the Ordinary of the Mass, ie the fixed parts of the liturgy: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus dei. The previously common in the Roman Catholic Church use of the term Missa Solemnis for a festive High Mass is no longer in use since the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

A large fair is both in scope and in their symphonic composition often about the possibilities of a performance in the liturgical context also, so concert performances are frequent.

The Missa Solemnis is facing the Missa brevis in which either the entire Ordinariumstext was set to music in a musically simpler form or setting includes only the Kyrie and Gloria.

The Missa Solemnis is probably best known by Ludwig van Beethoven. The Petite Messe solennelle (French " small solemn mass " ) by Gioachino Rossini is committed to the model of the Missa Solemnis Beethoven in some elements. Also by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart come known fairs of this type, the fragmentary Great Mass in C minor and the Waisenhausmesse while Mozart's Missa Solemnis, usually referred to as the Mass in C major, K. 337 this genre just does not belong. Other examples are the fair solennelle en l' honneur de Sainte -Cécile by Charles Gounod or the fair solennelle by Hector Berlioz.

• Genre of choral music
• Fair ( music)
• Roman rite
• Holy Mass