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Beethoven’s Mass solemnis

Date
1927
Archive
Documentation Center of the Catalan Orfeó
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT CEDOC 3.21_12233
Link to the online document
Description

On the occasion of the centenary of Beethoven’s death in 1927, the Orfeó Català prepared three auditions of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. Although it was not the first audition in Barcelona, ​​because it had already been performed in 1906 at the Teatre Principal, it was indeed the first performance at the Palau and the last concert broadcast live by Ràdio Barcelona on the main European stations. This broadcast was published on 12 stone discs, through the record label La Voz de Su Amo. It was the first time that the Missa solemnis was recorded, a disc that had a large amount of sales at an international level.