Masses

A mass composition by a young Viennese composer: in 1760, at the age of 16, Marianna von Martines (1744-1812) composed her "Seconda Messa". Just one year later, another mass from her pen was performed...

A mass composition by a young Viennese composer: in 1760, at the age of 16, Marianna von Martines (1744-1812) composed her "Seconda Messa". Just one year later, another mass from her pen was performed...

A mass composition by a young Viennese composer: in 1760, at the age of 16, Marianna von Martines (1744-1812) composed her "Seconda Messa". Just one year later, another mass from her pen was performed...

Missa latina is a complete Latin mass composition for solo soprano, large mixed choir (SATB with voice parts and choral solos) and a band consisting of violin, bandoneon (accordion), piano, double bas...

The Missa latina is a complete setting of the Latin Mass for solo soprano, large mixed choir (SATB divisi as well as soloists from the choir) and a band consisting of violin, bandoneon (accordion), pi...

The Christmas cantata "Gloria in excelsis Deo", which has always presented researchers with a number of exciting puzzles, is one of the few Latin works written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It consists of...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

Neben der h-Moll-Messe existieren von Bach bekanntlich vier weitere, kleinere Messkompositionen, die sog. Lutherischen oder Kyrie-Gloria-Messen. Trotz ihrer hohen musikalischen Qualitäten, stehen sie...

In contrast to the two "Regina coeli" settings K. 74 and 127, which are scored for solo soprano and choir, Mozart uses the solo quartet in K. 276, which, similar to the Salzburg masses, often only dia...

Cherubini's "Messe solennelle in G" was originally composed for a planned coronation ceremony in 1819. However, the celebrations did not take place. The mass disappeared into oblivion and was only red...

Diese 'Werktagsmesse' ist für die Fastenzeit geeignet. Im schlichten Note-gegen-Note-Satz komponiert, weist das frühe Werk [1843-44] erste harmonische Kühnheiten auf, die Bruckner während seiner Studi...

Vierstimmige 'Choralmesse' ohne Kyrie und Gloria. Sie enthält das Graduale Christus factus est und das Offertorium Dextera Domini.

Mit den beiden letzten Missae breves, der 'Missa Sti Nicolai' und der 'Missa St Joannis de Deo', hat Haydn auch in dieser Gattung Meisterwerke geschaffen, die bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten zu den belieb...

Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae - Haydns sogenannte Große Orgelsolomesse in Es-Dur zählt zu jenen Werken des Komponisten, die schon früh eine ausgesprochen weite Verbreitung fanden. Die i...

Missa Cellensis in honorem BVM. Cäcilienmesse - Als Joseph Haydn 1766, nach dem Tod seines Vorgängers Gregor Joseph Werner, die Leitung der Esterházy-Kapelle übernahm, begann er mit der Komposition se...

When Joseph Haydn took over the direction of the Esterházy Chapel in 1766 after the death of his predecessor Gregor Joseph Werner, he began composing his first and most extensive Missa solemnis. The t...

Haydn probably wrote the Missa Sancti Nicolai in 1772 for Prince Nicolaus Esterházy's name day. Not only is it comparatively large in scale, but the orchestra is also larger than usual for Missae brev...

In the Mariazell Mass Haydn succeeds convincingly in creating a specific synthesis between the high demands of 'autonomous' art music on the one hand, which are reflected in the corresponding composit...

The "Missa in d" published here was written as the third of Haydn's "High Masses" in the summer of 1798, i.e. between the two late oratorios. According to the autograph dating, Haydn needed less than...

Joseph Haydn's "Missa in B flat" with the nickname "Mass of Creation", the fifth of his six late Missae solemnes, was composed in just six weeks in 1801. Like all of his great masses, he composed this...

Due to the requirement of the Archbishop of Salzburg that even a solemn mass should not last longer than three quarters of an hour, Mozart composed a "Missa brevis et solemnis", i.e. a solemn mass wit...

Mozart's "Missa in C major" K. 317, unfoundedly called the "Coronation Mass", is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works of its genre. The autograph of the mass, which is revealing...

Mozart's mass settings have always been an integral part of church music practice. Like few other settings of the Ordinary, they combine high artistic perfection and beauty of sound with the requireme...

Composed in the autumn of 1768 during an extended stay in Vienna, this work marks the beginning of a series of masses in which Mozart was always concerned with the expression of true and genuine churc...

The "Missa brevis in D minor" is one of the few masses that Mozart wrote in a minor key. Only two others, the "Missa solemnis", K. 139, and the "Great Mass", K. 427, are also in a minor key.