| Missa Brevis | |
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| Missa brevis by Leonard Bernstein | |
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| Related | based on incidental music for Anouilh's play The Lark |
| Occasion | retirement of Robert Shaw from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra |
| Text | Missa senza credo |
| Language | Latin |
| Composed | 1988 |
| Performed | 1989: Atlanta |
| Movements | six |
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The Missa Brevis by Leonard Bernstein is a musical setting of parts of the mass ordinary in Latin for a mixed a cappella choir with countertenor solo and percussion. It is also Bernstein's last complete choral work, due to his death a year after its completion in 1989.