Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa longa in C major KV 262 (246a)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Missa longa in C major KV 262 (246a)
- Instrumentation Soloists, Mixed Choir (SATB) and Chamber Orchestra
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Editor Martin Focke
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- Editor Walter Senn
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The Mass K. 262 (246a) is known as the Missa longa. Leopold Mozart wrote this designation for its incipit on the cover of the bundle in which the autographs of five of Mozart's masses in C major were once united. In the Mozart literature, the year of composition of the work is given as 1776, without any indication that it is merely a guess.
The monumentality of the Missa longa suggests a special festive occasion for which the work was composed. If one looks for notable ecclesiastical events that took place in the eighth decade, one of them is the consecration of Ignaz Josef Count von Spaur, who was coadjutor and administrator of the diocese of Brixen, as titular bishop of Chrysopel in Salzburg Cathedral on November 17, 1776. Erich Schenk has explained that Wolfgang's "Spaur Mass", mentioned in Leopold Mozart's letter of May 28, 1778, refers to the consecration of Ignaz Josef Spaur, who was a long-time acquaintance of the Mozart family; the composition for the consecration was probably all the more a personal homage. The only setting of the Ordinary from this period that corresponds to such a highly solemn setting is the Missa longa.
The monumentality of the Missa longa suggests a special festive occasion for which the work was composed. If one looks for notable ecclesiastical events that took place in the eighth decade, one of them is the consecration of Ignaz Josef Count von Spaur, who was coadjutor and administrator of the diocese of Brixen, as titular bishop of Chrysopel in Salzburg Cathedral on November 17, 1776. Erich Schenk has explained that Wolfgang's "Spaur Mass", mentioned in Leopold Mozart's letter of May 28, 1778, refers to the consecration of Ignaz Josef Spaur, who was a long-time acquaintance of the Mozart family; the composition for the consecration was probably all the more a personal homage. The only setting of the Ordinary from this period that corresponds to such a highly solemn setting is the Missa longa.
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