Haydn: Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida, Hob. XXII:10

Composer: Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Editors: Howard Chandler Robbins Landon, Christa Landon, Karl Heinz Füssl (1924-1992) Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, SATB Choir Originally for: SATB Choir, Orchestra Work: Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida ("Heilig Mass"), Hob. XXII:10 Binding: Work Language: Latin ISMN: 9790006452132 Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches Pages: 125 Urtext / Critical Edition Description Bernard of Offida, 1604–1694, was a Capuchin monk, whose saintly life and devotion to the sick and poor, caused him to be beatified by Pope Pius VI on 19 May, 1795. St. Bernard's name day falls on the 11th of September (a Saturday in 1797), and it is generally thought that Haydn combined doing honour to the Capuchin monk with the production of a new Mass for his patron the day thereafter. Apparently later performances in Eisenstadt added horns to double the trumpets in the tuttis, and – just as in the previous Mass – the clarinet parts were enlarged; it is a