Missa brevis in G major | |
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Mass by W. A. Mozart | |
Key | G major |
Catalogue | K. 49/47d |
Composed | 1768 Salzburg : |
Movements | 6 |
Vocal | SATB choir and soloists |
Instrumental |
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Mozart's Mass in G major, K. 49/47d), is his first full mass. It is a missa brevis scored for SATB soloists and choir, violin I and II, viola, and basso continuo.
Mozart wrote the Mass in G major at the age of 12. It was however neither his first setting of a part of the mass ordinary – two years earlier he had already composed a Kyrie (K. 33) —, nor was it his largest composition with a religious theme up to date: his sacred musical play Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots had been premiered in the previous year.
Composed in Vienna in the autumn of 1768, [1] this mass is Mozart's only missa brevis to feature a viola part. [2] It is not clear what occasion it was composed for, and it has been confused with the Waisenhausmesse, composed in the same year. [3]
Religious music at the time was increasingly influenced by opera and Baroque embellishments in instrumentation; Mozart's early masses, such as K. 49/47d, have been seen as a return to the more austere settings of the pre-Baroque era. [4]
The six movements of the mass follow the traditional Order of Mass:
1988: Edith Mathis (soprano), Rosemarie Lang (contralto), Uwe Heilmann (tenor), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass) — Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Kegel — Philips Classics Records (later reissued in 1991 as part of The Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 19 "Missae and Requiem").
Missa brevis in G major | |
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Mass by W. A. Mozart | |
Key | G major |
Catalogue | K. 49/47d |
Composed | 1768 Salzburg : |
Movements | 6 |
Vocal | SATB choir and soloists |
Instrumental |
|
Mozart's Mass in G major, K. 49/47d), is his first full mass. It is a missa brevis scored for SATB soloists and choir, violin I and II, viola, and basso continuo.
Mozart wrote the Mass in G major at the age of 12. It was however neither his first setting of a part of the mass ordinary – two years earlier he had already composed a Kyrie (K. 33) —, nor was it his largest composition with a religious theme up to date: his sacred musical play Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots had been premiered in the previous year.
Composed in Vienna in the autumn of 1768, [1] this mass is Mozart's only missa brevis to feature a viola part. [2] It is not clear what occasion it was composed for, and it has been confused with the Waisenhausmesse, composed in the same year. [3]
Religious music at the time was increasingly influenced by opera and Baroque embellishments in instrumentation; Mozart's early masses, such as K. 49/47d, have been seen as a return to the more austere settings of the pre-Baroque era. [4]
The six movements of the mass follow the traditional Order of Mass:
1988: Edith Mathis (soprano), Rosemarie Lang (contralto), Uwe Heilmann (tenor), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass) — Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Kegel — Philips Classics Records (later reissued in 1991 as part of The Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 19 "Missae and Requiem").