MESSE KOMPOSITIONEN ZU EHREN DER HEILIGEN ANNA. UMRISS DER PROBLEMATIK
LITURGICAL COMPOSITIONS IN HONOR OF SAINT ANNE. A TOPICAL OVERVIEW

Summary/Abstract: As devotion to St. Anne developed in the West from the 14th century onwards, it became associated with liturgical works, including musical compositions. These include the propria of Mass: alleluia acclamations with verses and sequences, and, above all, numerous motets (Festa, Senfl, Mouton, de Mantua, Lhéritrier, di Lasso, Charpentier). This article, however, focuses only on selected Masses, which, in their musical forms, are associated with the name of Jesus’s Holy Grandmother. This collection includes compositions by such artists as Pierre de la Rue, Marcin Mielczewski, Josef Gruber, Kazimierz Garbusiński, Charles Haenni and Richard Flury. An interesting discovery was made regarding 20th-century and contemporary Masses connected with the Breton sanctuary in Saint-Anne-d’Auray (Brittany). References to Gregorian chants and Breton religious songs (Ropartz, Le Penven, Salaün, Le Marec) have been found there. Contemporary Masses by Peter F. Schneider, based on a German ordinarium, and compositions by the Polish composers Joseph Świder and Anna M. Huszcza have also been linked to the name of St. Anne. These are all important testimonies to the vitality of Christianity in the musical culture of the past and present.

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