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Like few other settings of the Ordinary, Mozart's masses combine high artistic perfection and beauty of sound with the requirements of the liturgy; even the text-rich movements "Gloria" and "Credo" in...

The work interprets in a sensitive way the effect Pope Frances, who was elected in March 2013, has on people. Based on three Argentine folk songs, the mass with its powerful and quiet parts arouses fe...

Bruckner's great "Mass in F minor" is one of the composer's most important works – and of 19th-century choral music in general. In a unique way, the composer succeeds here in musically penetrating the...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. First you were dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression made on him by Charles Goun...

The "Missa in C" K. 167 is the only mass by Mozart to bear a dedication in its title: "Missa in honorem SS:mae Trinitatis". The work is therefore linked to a specific occasion, which has not yet been...

Mozart's "Missa in C" K. 258 cannot be clearly dated, but was probably composed around 1775/76. The mass is composed in the brevis form and was therefore also labeled as such on the cover of the antho...

When Anton Theodor Count Colloredo-Mels and Wallsee was consecrated Archbishop of Olomouc in 1778, the Prince Archbishop left the choice of music to the Kapellmeister Leopold Mozart. The choice fell o...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Missa in C" K. 257 has been given many nicknames throughout its history. Known as the "Great Credo Mass", Leopold Mozart referred to it as the "Missa longa" due to its lengt...

In January 1779, Mozart took up his new post as court organist in Salzburg, which required him to compose a series of church works. The autograph of his "Missa in C" K. 317, which has been known as th...

Mozart's "Missa in C" K. 337 is similar to the "Coronation Mass" K. 317 in its scoring, occasion and scope: around a year after the "Coronation Mass", in March 1780, the "Missa in C" was also intended...

The "Missa in C" KV 220 with the popular nickname "Spatzenmesse" has become a firm fixture in the repertoire of many choirs to this day. As one of the most important works of church music from Mozart'...

During the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E-flat D 950. The occasion for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live...

The choral landscape is changing! On the one hand, more and more choirs in Germany and abroad are experiencing a shortage of male voices - and at the same time, more and more female choirs are looking...

For this scholarly-critical edition, the editor has considered no fewer than 16 sources, more than have ever been consulted for any other edition of the work. Some of these sources have been evaluated...

Beethoven described his grandly conceived 'Missa solemnis' as 'my greatest work' and sold manuscript copies to some of the subscribers even before it had appeared in print. This Urtext edition takes i...

Beethoven described the magnificent Missa solemnis as "my greatest work" and sold copies of the manuscript to some of his subscribers even before publication. This Urtext edition of the work takes all...

Mozart's magnificent, unfinished "Missa in c" K. 427 impresses not only because of its monumentality and musical beauty, but also because its incomplete transmission has fascinated scholars and practi...

The Missa Sancti Josephi occupies a key position among Jan Dismas Zelenka's 20 or so large masses. In this mass, which was probably composed in 1732 for a saint's feast (therefore without a Credo), th...

Anton Bruckner composed the first of his three orchestral masses, the Mass in D minor, in just four months in 1864. Nevertheless, it was not completed for Emperor Franz Joseph I's birthday as planned,...

Bruckner's great "Mass in F minor" is one of the composer's - and 19th century choral music's - most important works. In a unique way, the composer succeeds here in musically penetrating the contents...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first one was dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression that Charles...

Weber's "Missa sancta No. 1" in E flat major is also known as the "Freischütz Mass", as he composed it in 1818 while working on the opera of the same name. The mass already enjoyed great popularity am...