ARNOLD GYÖRGY MISSA SPARTÁJA Történeti kontextus, műfaji sajátosságok és tételenkénti zenei elemzés
GYÖRGY ARNOLD’S “MISSA SPARTA”: HISTORICAL CONTEXT, GENRE CHARACTERISTICS, AND MOVEMENT-BY MOVEMENT MUSICAL ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: The study examines György Arnold’s “Missa Sparta”, composed in Subotica in 1848, from both historical and analytical perspectives. The first part of the paper interprets the work within the multicultural milieu of the Délvidék region in the first half of the nineteenth century, at the intersection of the Central European church music model, local liturgical practice, and the role of the composer as educator. The second part provides a movement-bymovement analysis of the mass cycle through the examination of formal structure, thematic material, tonal and harmonic processes, treatment of instrumentation, and textural solutions. The analysis argues that the “Missa Sparta” is not merely a regional liturgical composition, but a consciously constructed, cyclically organized work that adapts Classical traditions to local performance conditions. The composition can thus be regarded both as a document of the Catholic musical culture of Subotica and as the most concise expression of Arnold’s compositional program.

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