{{Infobox musical composition | name = ''Missa Princeps Pacis'' | type = Mass | composer = William Lloyd Webber | image = | caption = | key = | catalogue = | occasion = | text = Mass Ordinary | language = Latin | composed = {{Start date|1962}} | dedication = Wilfred Purney | published = {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|1962}}|location=London}} | movements = | vocal = {{abbr|SATB|soprano, alto, tenor and bass}} choir | instrumental = Organ }} The '''''{{lang|la|Missa Princeps Pacis}}''''' (Mass ''Prince of Peace'') is a mass composed by William Lloyd Webber in 1962 for a four-part choir and organ.<ref name="Score" />
Lloyd Webber, who was the father of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber,<ref name="Duchen 2014" /> was the organist and choirmaster of All Saints, Margaret Street, London between 1939 and 1948. From 1958 he served as director of music at the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. During this time, he composed two Latin masses, ''Princeps Pacis'' in 1962 and ''Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae'' in 1979.<ref name="France" />
The title "Prince of Peace" was part of a prophecy by Isaiah ({{Sourcetext | source = Bible | version = King James | book = Isaiah | chapter = 9 | verse = 6 }}), which Handel had used in the chorus ''For unto us a child is born'' in part I of his ''Messiah''. The mass sets all part of the Mass Ordinary except the Credo, and is thus a missa brevis.
The mass was published in 1962 under the English title Mass "The Prince of Peace", with the dedication "to my friend Father Wilfred Purney with affection".<ref name="Cary" /> It was recorded by Chandos in 1997, styled "Mass: 'Princeps Pacis'", as part of the album ''Invocation'', a collection of works by William Lloyd Webber, with the Westminster Singers and organist Ian Watson and conducted by Richard Hickox.<ref name="Chandos" />
It was published under its Latin title in the ''William Lloyd Webber Centenary Collection'' by Kevin Mayhew.<ref name="Mayhew" /> It was included in a celebration of Lloyd Webber's sacred music at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 11 March 2014, marking his 100th anniversary.<ref name="Duchen 2014" /><ref name="Collis"/><ref name="Martin" /> The St Martin-in-the-Fields event included St Martin's Voices and organist Andrew Earis.<ref name="Martin" /> A reviewer noted: "The first half ended with possibly the finest of the chosen works, the choral Missa Princeps Pacis, a beautifully crafted and proportioned composition with echoes of Fauré, performed here with delicacy."<ref name="Collis" />
== Structure == Webber structured the text in five movements, which he marked for tempo in Italian:<ref name="Cary" /> * Kyrie – Comodo e cantabile / Poco agitato * Gloria – Allegro comodo / Meno mosso ed espreso/ Allegro comodo * Sanctus – Maestoso * Benedictus – Andante sostenuto * Agnus Dei = Comodo, ma poco mesto
== References ==
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<ref name="Collis">{{cite web | last = Collis | first = Ben | url = http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_features.php?id=11826 | title = Feature Review: A Celebration of William Lloyd Webber at St Martin-in-the-Fields (11 March 2014) | publisher = classicalsource.com | date = March 2014 | accessdate = 29 May 2017 }}</ref>
<ref name="France">{{cite web | last = France | first = John | url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Dec02/WLloydWebber.htm | title = William Lloyd Webber / An Impressionistic View | publisher = musicweb-international.com | year = 2014 | accessdate = 29 May 2017 }}</ref>
<ref name="Chandos">{{cite web | url = https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%209595 | title = Webber: Invocation | publisher = Chandos | accessdate = 29 May 2017 }}</ref>
<ref name="Martin">{{cite web |url = http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/event/a-celebration-of-william-lloyd-webber/ |title = A Celebration of William Lloyd Webber |publisher = St Martin-in-the-Fields |accessdate = 6 May 2017 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140324232206/http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/event/a-celebration-of-william-lloyd-webber/ |archivedate = 24 March 2014 }}</ref>
<ref name="Mayhew">{{cite web | url = http://www.kevinmayhew.com/william-lloyd-webber-centenary-collection-missa-princeps-pacis.html#.WSxXVjQlFR1 | title = William Lloyd Webber Centenary Collection – Missa Princeps Pacis | publisher = Kevin Mayhew | accessdate = 29 May 2017 }}</ref>
<ref name="Cary">{{cite book | title = Mass "The Prince of Peace" | publisher = Cary & Co | year = 1962 }}</ref>
<ref name="Score">{{cite book | title = Missa Princeps Pacis | publisher = Kevin Mayhew | year = }}</ref>
<ref name="Duchen 2014">{{cite web | last=Duchen | first=Jessica | author-link=Jessica Duchen | title=The other Lloyd Webber: Andrew's father William has always been | website=The Independent | date=15 January 2014 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-other-lloyd-webber-andrews-father-william-has-always-been-overshadowed-by-his-sons-musical-9062539.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-other-lloyd-webber-andrews-father-william-has-always-been-overshadowed-by-his-sons-musical-9062539.html |archive-date=2022-05-15 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | access-date=30 May 2017}}</ref> }}
== External links == * Rob Barnett: [http://www.musicweb-international.com/webber/webber.htm An Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber About His Father, The Composer, William Lloyd Webber] musicweb-international.com * [http://gemeinden.erzbistum-koeln.de/stifts-chor-bonn/service/komponisten/Webber.html Prof. William Southcombe Lloyd Webber CBE] (in German) Diocese of Cologne
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