title: Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville
text: # Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville
  
  The Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville (Mass of the fishermen of Villerville) is a missa brevis written by Gabriel Fauré in collaboration with his former pupil André Messager. A later version, published as Messe basse contained only movements composed by Fauré.
  
  ## Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville (1881)
  
  Fauré and Messager worked together on the mass in the summer of 1881.
  
  The sections of the mass run as follows:
  
  * Kyrie (Messager)
  * Gloria (Fauré)
  * Sanctus (Fauré)
  * O Salutaris (Messager)
  * Agnus Dei (Fauré)
  
  The first performance took place in Villerville on 4 September 1881 accompanied by a harmonium and a violin. The concert was in aid of the fishermen's charitable association. Messager orchestrated the first four sections, and Fauré the last. A second performance, this time accompanied by orchestra, was given in Villerville the following year.
  
  ## Messe basse (published 1907)
  
  In 1907, Heugel & Cie. published a version of the mass, removing Messager's sections and the Gloria (apart from a part of its music that was reused for the added Benedictus), and incorporating a new Kyrie by Fauré; this version, produced by Fauré in 1906, appeared under the title Messe basse.
  
  