Masses

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

In contrast to Mozart's much shorter masses of the same period, Leopold Mozart described K. 262 as a "Missa longa". Indeed, the length of the individual movements and the final fugues of the Gloria an...

The Mass in C minor K. 427, Mozart's "Great Mass", is a torso - a circumstance that is extremely regrettable, especially in view of the monumentality of this work. Following his sensational reconstruc...

The Vienna Tonkünstlersozietät, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, also requested a choral work from Mozart for its benefit concerts in March 1785. Presumably not onl...

The 30 or so mass settings by Johann Michael Haydn are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime. In his sacred music, the composer achieved a synthesis of counterpoin...

Due to its instrumentation alone, the Missa Sancti Hieronymi occupies a special position both among Haydn's mass settings and in the church music repertoire of the Salzburg royal court. The extraordin...

The names given to Michael Haydn's masses are related to the specific commission or the dedicatee of the composition. For example, Haydn composed the "Missa in honorem Sti. Gotthardi", also known as t...

Among Haydn's more than thirty settings of the Latin Ordinary text, his Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae, completed on August 5, 1793 according to the autograph, occupies a prominent position. It can...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

Filled with youthful brilliance, dramatic passion, and unmistakable melodic richness, Giacomo Puccini’s early masterpiece—the Messa a 4 voci con orchestra SC 6 (often celebrated as the Messa di Gloria...

In contrast to the earlier smaller sacred works, whose style is partly borrowed from the Baroque and Classical periods, Schubert has forged his personal, Romantic-influenced sacred style in this opus....

Johann Michael Haydn's masses are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime, as the large number of copies shows. This also applies to the Missa Sancti Dominici, which...

Messa delle Benedicenza - Die Messen Johann Michael Haydns sind Meisterwerke ihrer Gattung und waren zu seinen Lebzeiten äusserst beliebt, wie die Vielzahl an Abschriften zeigt. Dies gilt auch für die...

The Gabrielsmesse, which was very popular in Michael Haydn's time, exists in two versions: the first and original version contains a very short Gloria and Credo. In the second version, the two mass mo...

Die zu Michael Haydns Zeit sehr beliebte Gabrielsmesse liegt in zwei Fassungen vor: die erste und ursprüngliche Fassung enthält ein sehr kurzes Gloria und Credo. In der zweiten Fassungen wurden die be...

Eberlin schrieb an die 250 Werke für die Kirchenmusik in Salzburg und schuf damit das Repertoire, das später auch Mozart stark beeinflusste. Seine Messen zeichnen sich einerseits durch harmonische und...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Bc

Johann Ernst Eberlin war die prägende Persönlichkeit im Salzburger Musikleben vor Mozart. Dieser lobte später respektvoll Eberlins ideenreiche Kompositionsweise, wie sie sich auch in dieser Kurzmesse...

Experience sacred choral music of radiant beauty and spiritual depth: The "Missa ex F", bearing the evocative subtitle "Orgelsolomesse", is a musical gem for festive liturgical services and church con...

Coro SAB, 2 Vl, Bc

Louis Spohrs einzige Messe zählt zu den bedeutendsten Werken der nachklassischen Kirchenmusik. Spohr bringt in dieser A-cappella-Messe das damalige Interesse an den barocken Satztechniken und das Stre...

Louis Spohrs einzige Messe zählt zu den bedeutendsten Werken der nachklassischen Kirchenmusik. Spohr bringt in dieser A-cappella-Messe das damalige Interesse an den barocken Satztechniken und das Stre...

Louis Spohrs einzige Messe zählt zu den bedeutendsten Werken der nachklassischen Kirchenmusik. Spohr bringt in dieser A-cappella-Messe das damalige Interesse an den barocken Satztechniken und das Stre...