Messa a 4 voci con orchestra

Puccini composed his Messa a 4 voci con orchestra  ("Messa di Gloria") in 1878–1880. The musical quality, the energy, and the freshness of this youthful work led the composer to quote from his Mass in later operas, ensuring an ever-growing popularity for the work after its rediscovery in 1952.

This scholarly-critical edition of Puccini’s only mass is based on the Urtext of the "Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini". The Edizione has been published by the international research institute "Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini" since 2013. 

An examination of the autograph score has led to numerous corrections being made in the "Edizione Nazionale" compared with the old-established music text of this work. As well as this, Puccini’s orchestral amendments in the Benedictus and his new arrangement of the tenor aria "Gratias agimus" from the Gloria, both dating from 1893, have been taken into consideration.