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Glagolitic Mass

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Glagolitic Mass

Work by Leoš Janáček for soloists, chorus, organ, and orchestra (text by M Weingart from the Ordinary of the Mass in Old Church Slavonic). It was composed in 1926 and first performed in Brno, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), on 5 December 1927.

The piece was written to celebrate the independence of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic); as part of this Janáček wished to use the oldest Slavonic version of the Ordinary that could be found. He believed that the 9th-century manuscript which was found and transcribed for him was in a language called ‘Glagolitic’, however he was mistaken: Glagolitic was the liturgical alphabet in which it was written. Janáček's score uses Cyrillic and Roman, but the distinctive name has remained.
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The Mass is a form of the Glagolitic Mass pioneered by Leo Janacek in 1926 but used by other composers as well; the term "Glagolitic" refers to the alphabet created by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in the ninth century to translate the Bible into Slavic.
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