Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate KV 165 (158a)
Motet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate KV 165 (158a)
Motet
- Instrumentation High Voice, Organ and Orchestra
- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
- Editor Hellmut Federhofer Robert Münster
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Description:
In Italy today, a Latin sacred solo cantata, which consists of two arias and two recitatives and concludes with a Hallelujah, and which is generally sung by one of the best singers after the Credo, is given this name [motet]. A composition of this kind is the solo motet Exsultate, jubilate KV 165/158a, which W. A. Mozart composed in Milan at the beginning of 1773 after the highly successful performance of his opera Lucio Silla.
During the recording and cataloging of music manuscripts in Bavaria funded by the German Research Foundation in 1978, the parts of a previously unknown second version were found in the parish church of St. Jakob in Wasserburg am Inn. The notes and text for the final Alleluia movement were written by the Salzburg court bassoonist and copyist Joseph Richard Estlinger (ca. 1720-1791), who worked extensively for Mozart's father and son. Compared to the Milan version, the vocal text of this Salzburg manuscript differs in the first aria and the recitative. It was added by another hand. The Salzburg version of the text is clearly related to the feast of the Holy Trinity. There is much to suggest that this version was first sung on May 30, 1779, on Trinity Sunday, by the Salzburg soprano castrato Francesco Ceccarelli in a service in the Holy Trinity Church mentioned by Nannerl Mozart. On this day, Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were invited to lunch with Ceccarelli in the priest's house of the church. The additional text version in the first aria allows the solo motet to be used for Christmas as well.
During the recording and cataloging of music manuscripts in Bavaria funded by the German Research Foundation in 1978, the parts of a previously unknown second version were found in the parish church of St. Jakob in Wasserburg am Inn. The notes and text for the final Alleluia movement were written by the Salzburg court bassoonist and copyist Joseph Richard Estlinger (ca. 1720-1791), who worked extensively for Mozart's father and son. Compared to the Milan version, the vocal text of this Salzburg manuscript differs in the first aria and the recitative. It was added by another hand. The Salzburg version of the text is clearly related to the feast of the Holy Trinity. There is much to suggest that this version was first sung on May 30, 1779, on Trinity Sunday, by the Salzburg soprano castrato Francesco Ceccarelli in a service in the Holy Trinity Church mentioned by Nannerl Mozart. On this day, Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were invited to lunch with Ceccarelli in the priest's house of the church. The additional text version in the first aria allows the solo motet to be used for Christmas as well.