1st Edition
Gregorio Ballabene’s Forty-eight-part Mass for Twelve Choirs (1772)
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
Biography
Dr Florian Bassani is a lecturer at the Institute of Musicology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
