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BENNO AMMANN : Missa «Defensor Pacis»

(for unaccompanied SSATBB div. choir)

Thursday 15 May, 1947

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Sistine Singers, cond. S. Exz Don Lorenzo Perosi

Hug & Co. Musikverlage, 1954 (GH 9965)

“A large scale choral work written by Benno Ammann for the celebration of the canonization of the Swiss hermit Niklaus von Flüe (1417-1487), and accordingly has the subtitle "in honorem S. Nicolai Helvetii Eremitae" (in honor of the Swiss saint and hermit Niklaus von Flüe).”