Mass No. 2 in E minor (1882 version; Urtext/Bornhöft)
(Messe Nr. 2 in e-Moll )

For 8-Part Mixed Choir and Winds, Urtext. Composed by Anton Bruckner. Edited by Rudiger Bornhoft. Originally written for Bishop Ruedigier on the occasion of the consecration of the votive chapel of the Linz Cathedral, the second version of 1882 includes improvedmelodic writing and instrumentation. Bornhoeft had access to the autograph manuscripts and handwritten scores that survive in Linz and Vienna. Source criticismand editorial methods are detailed in the full score, and both the full and vocal scores include a preface giving the history of the work and its context.of the work and its context.