Rare Beethoven at the Boulder Phil | Sharps & Flatirons
MIssa Solemnis, “Magnum Opus” of great extent and significance, May 4 By Peter Alexander April 30 at 5:50 p.m. Beethoven was a few years years late. He promised his friend, pupil and patron Archduke Rudolf that he would write a solemn mass—Missa Solemnis—for the latter’s investiture in 1820 as the Archbishop of Olomouc. But the…