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Garcia, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1767, a priest and bandmaster at the cathedral there, is still little known. His mostly sacred works include four settings of the Mass for the Dead. The present "Miss...

This Missa solemnis in C major (before 1764) is recommended for performance to all those who would like to get to know Leopold Mozart not only as the composer of a musical sleigh ride and author of a...

With a musically convincing and in many respects highly original interpretation of the liturgical text, Herzogenberg's mass represents a final highlight in the late Romantic repertoire of the "Missa s...

Nicolai's only surviving mass is one of his most important contributions to church music. It is characterized by its varied structure and good singing quality. It therefore offers many choirs a real a...

The Carus program on Dresden court music continues with the first edition of one of the great masses (No. 9, D major) by Johann David Heinichen, the most important musical representative of the Saxon...

A valuable addition to the requiem repertoire: Biber's Requiem in F minor is one of the most impressive settings of the requiem mass of the 17th century. The specific occasion for the composition of t...

Monteverdi's "Vespers of Mary" has found its way into today's musical practice like hardly any other work of the 17th century. However, the "Vespers of Mary" also presents us with many puzzles. The so...

Anyone who has Bruckner's symphonies and well-known great masses in their ears will be amazed when they hear his "Missa solemnis" from 1854: can the tradition of Viennese Classicism still be so clearl...

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...

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...

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...

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 Tempore Belli is an interesting work in several respects. On the one hand, this mass setting allows some conclusions to be drawn about the situation of Austrian church music under the inf...

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...