`As I played through these rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin, I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.' --- Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky's Mass was one of his few uncommissioned works, and its composition was an act of natural piety. It is also significant that a composer of the Orthodox faith, as Stravinsky is, should have written a Catholic Mass and one actually designed for liturgical use.
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