The Cyrillic, which replaces the
Glagolitic, was created in the Preslav School of Literature.
This was not due to a lack in confidence as a composer: 1926, his sabbatical year from operas, saw the composition of two of his greatest and most substantial nonoperatic works: the Sinfonietta for orchestra and the
Glagolitic Mass.
We will commemo rate the anniversary of the death of Leos Janacek with his underperformed cantata Amarus followed by the
Glagolitic Mass.
(8.) There is still a controversy surrounding the origin of Cyrillic and
Glagolitic, which was the alphabet invented by Constantine.
The Proms kicks off in style with this concert, which sees 19-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor make his Proms debut as the soloist in Liszt's dramatic Piano Concerto No 2, and an international line-up of soloists for a performance of Janacek's choral work, the
Glagolitic Mass.
(42) Robert Mathiesen, "Cyrillic and
Glagolitic Printing and the Eisenstein Thesis," Solanus 6 (1992): 3-26, asserts (19): "To the best of my knowledge, printed blank forms in Old Cyrillic were not produced by Slavia Orthodoxa during the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries."
The Mass is a form of the
Glagolitic Mass pioneered by Leo Janacek in 1926 but used by other composers as well; the term "
Glagolitic" refers to the alphabet created by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in the ninth century to translate the Bible into Slavic.
While examining the original shapes of the contemporary letter bl attention is drawn to the fact that in both Slavic alphabets (Cyrillic and
Glagolitic) bl is rendered by two letters, b followed by i which could be easily understood as a kind of ligature containing letter i like in ie [*je] and io [*jau].
He recently played the solo part in Janacek's
Glagolitic Mass with the Halle and Mark Elder.
But their most recent performance of Janacek's
Glagolitic Mass, under conductor Graham Jordan Ellis, fell short of their normally high musical mark.
The Philharmonia Orchestra, under Sir Charles Mackerras, will be performing Janacek's mighty
Glagolitic Mass on Monday with an impressive line-up of singers - Christine Brewer, Louise Winter, John Mac Master and Neal Davies - and Birmingham's city organist Thomas Trotter.