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The 'Schwabenkinder' mass was created from materials taken from the film music for Jo Baier's film 'The Swabian Children': Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei were already composed in autumn 2002 for this film of the Way of the Cross, which tells the passion story of the farmer boy Kaspar and the Tyrolean children who have been sold at children's markets for centuries. The remaining parts were added in May 2003 in such a way that an independent and cyclically closed mass composition was created. It is probably a novelty in the history of music that a liturgically coherent mass has emerged from a film music.
Introduction: A RARITY: A FILMSCORE CHANGES INTO A MASS FOR THE CATOLIC LITURGY!!!
The 'Schwabenkinder' mass was created from materials taken from the film music for Jo Baier's film 'The Swabian Children': Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei were already composed in autumn 2002 for this film of the Way of the Cross, which tells the passion story of the farmer boy Kaspar and the Tyrolean children who have been sold at children's markets for centuries. The remaining parts were added in May 2003 in such a way that an independent and cyclically closed mass composition was created. It is probably a novelty in the history of music that a liturgically coherent mass has emerged from a film music.
In its stylistics, the work does not want to be 'modern', but consciously adheres to the idiom of the late 19th century, since the film plot is also located in this period. The tone and emotional timbre of the work is particularly indebted to the 'Cäcilien-Messe' by Charles Gounod (1818-1893), to which the film was cut by the director in the creation phase - the technique of the so-called 'temporary tracks'. Gounod's ingenious 'Sanctus' was consequently preserved in the original soundtrack. The composition of my 'Agnus Dei' refers to this 'Sanctus' in the sense of a playful homage.
Records: Ambiente Musikproduktion Best.Nr. ACD 3001, 1999
Performers on recording: Munich Cathedral Music, Gabriele Steck (soprano), Giorgi Bekaia (tenor),
Munich Cathedral orchestra, conducted by Karl-Ludwig Nies
Titel of the CD:
Dom zu Unserer Lieben Frau München
Enjott Schneider: Swabian Childrens Mass
also contains works by Hans Leitner 'Improvisations on the theme of the Swabian Childrens Mass' and by Karl-Ludwig Nies
