Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc, CG 74 (Score) Ballad for chorus and orchestra Prelude in E minor BWV

Prelude in E minor BWV 555

Donnerwort” was published in 1715

Both parts of the cantata end with a chorale movement with different verses from the Lutheran hymn “Es woll uns Gott genädig sein”

“ Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik 1/1991

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Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne d'Arc, CG 74 (Score) Ballad for chorus and orchestra Prelude in E minor BWVGounods Messe la mmoire de Jeanne dArc was composed in 1887 for a festive mass in Reims to commemorate the arrival of the national heroine in the city on the occasion of the coronation of Charles VII in 1429. Performed a cappella or only accompanied by an organ, vast stretches of the work are in an archaic style in the tradition of Palestrina. The royal procession into the cathedral is conveyed in the splendid Prlude at the beginning, which was