Consecrating the Stage
Uwe Scholz’s Choreographic Completion of Mozart’s Große Messe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21444872 |
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| Authors | Eftychia Papanikolaou (Bowling Green State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Musicological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-1896 • E-ISSN: 1547-7304 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01411896.2025.2488348 |
| OpenAlex | W4410612883 |
| Language | EN |
In this essay I investigate Die Große Messe (1998), a contemporary ballet by German choreographer Uwe Scholz (1958–2004). Based on W. A. Mozart’s unfinished Mass in C minor and enhanced with music by Thomas Jahn, György Kurtág, and Arvo Pärt, this conceptually complex work constitutes a quasi-liturgical praxis, whereby choreomusical events demonstrate a humanistic re-imagining of the sacred ritual. Through the lens of choreomusicology, I analyze how the ballet’s media work synergistically to construct, communicate, and transfer meaning, while also reflecting back on the function of the Roman Catholic Mass as liturgy
Art · Literature · MOZART · Stage (stratigraphy) · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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