Two masses were published in 1980/81 under the name C. Crassini (allegedly * 1561; † 1632)[1]. The first name is indicated in the public domain notes of the ''Kreuznacher-Diakonie-Kantorei'' with Claudio. No further information about the life of Crassini is known. In the literature the name is not verifiable before 1980. The works known under the name Crassini are devotrd to the tradition of the renewal of church music after the Council of Trento by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. They represent the turn of style from late Renaissance polyphony to the Venetian early Baroque development of sound, the Seconda pratica.
The two masses in Latin, published by Wolfram Menschick in 1980 and 1981, have been handed down to the present day. The performances are usually performed with a mixed choir or a cappella. Scores are offered on the market in these categories. Today's concept of a cappella music, i.e. singing without the use of instruments, no longer corresponds to the performance practice attributed to C. Crassini at the time. In Renaissance music, instruments accompanied the singing voice by playing the same notes (Colla parte). Sheet music of the Missa Prima for accompaniment by various instruments is available in the sheet music archive of the ''Kreuznacher-Diakonie-Kantorei''.
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(Note: Translated from the German version of Wikipedia into English,)
