Brian A. Schmidt is the Artistic Director and Founder of the South Dakota Chorale, a professional chorus organization, and also conducts at Duke University Chapel.
Composition History
Anticipating his capture by the Nazis in 1943, Marcel Tyberg entrusted his compositions, including these two Masses, to a friend for safekeeping.
Cultural Impact
Marcel Tyberg's music, once presumed lost, was rediscovered after his scores were found in the Buffalo basement of Dr. Enrico Mihich, whose father had received them from Tyberg.
Compositional Technique
Tyberg's Masses feature a late-Romantic structure and harmonic composition, resembling masters like Mahler and Bruckner, with a symphonic breadth that conveys a vast range of human emotion.
Historical Context
Marcel Tyberg, who was only 1/16th Jewish, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and later murdered at Auschwitz during World War II.
Composer Biography
Marcel Tyberg (Jr.) was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1893 to a prominent violinist father and a pianist mother who was a colleague of Artur Schnabel.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in January 2016 at the First-Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
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