Please join us at the cathedral at 4pm April 7 for a service of Holy Communion including Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis op. 123

On 7 April 1824 a work of music that Ludwig van Beethoven considered to be his magnum opus, his ‘Missa Solemnis’, or ‘Solemn
Mass’ in D major, received its first performance in St Petersburg.

200 years to the day, on 7 April 2024, over 100 musicians will help commemorate this anniversary with a full performance of the work in
St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne.

Famously, Beethoven declared his setting to be “from the heart – may it return to the heart”. The work also responds to the composer’s
experience of the Napoleonic wars with a concluding appeal for peace that has lost none of its relevance or urgency today.
For likely the first time ever in Australia the work will be realised (as Beethoven intended) in liturgical context.

Free Entry.

Performing:
Lee Abrahmsen (Soprano)
Liane Keegan (Alto)
Robert Macfarlane (Tenor)
Christopher Hillier (Bass)
The Orchestra Project
Conducted by Peter Tregear