Lost Beethoven hymn - Pange lingua

[AeolianHarp]

Published on Oct 29, 2012

Professor Barry Cooper -- one of the world's leading experts on the composer --found the work which Beethoven composed in about 1820, written alongside some original sketches of the famous Mass in D, known as the Missa Solemnis, in a sketchbook now in Berlin.

Full news item:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/n...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPCnodQQiY[/YOUTUBE]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...internalSearch

[Megan]

Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium is a hymn written by St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) for the Feast of Corpus Christi .




[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBmHYB7MNE[/YOUTUBE]

[Peter]

Some of those links aren't working so here is the link to Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPCnodQQiY

[AeolianHarp]

I think it is a sketch he was making a variation on Megan.

[Albert Gans]

Had the same reaction as Cooper. This is Beethoven? Really? I think I did read somewhere that he was considering using Gregorian chant in his Missa Solemnis.... don't remember where.

[AeolianHarp]

Had the same reaction as Cooper. This is Beethoven? Really? I think I did read somewhere that he was considering using Gregorian chant in his Missa Solemnis.... don't remember where.

Yes, Barry mentions that in the article- it was found in Beethoven's sketchbook.

[Armando Orlandi]

Yes yes.

This is the first page of the article of dear Barry.



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[AeolianHarp]

Thanks Armando!