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Inspired by Mozart and Cherubini's Requiem settings, Rheinberger created his first major sacred work in 1865 with the "Requiem" op. 60. Before its premiere in 1870, he reworked it once again and dedic...

Rheinberger reported around 150 performances of his Christoforus in Germany and abroad around 1900 - a success story that unfortunately came to an end in the 20th century. With the present edition, ba...

In preparation for his final examinations at the Conservatory in Munich in the summer of 1854, the 15-year-old Rheinberger turned his focus on composing in the old a cappella style in various scorings...

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger wrote the Benedictus sit Deus for choir with an obbligato organ part while spending his vacations in his home country Liechtenstein in the summer of 1861. He donated the shor...

The Recordare Virgo, an offertory for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) is part of the collection Carmina sacra WoO 7, which Rheinberger had published in 1886 at the request of his publi...

The Missa Beatissimae Virginis Mariae was composed around 1758-1760, between the end of Haydn's time as Kapellsänger at St. Stephen's in Vienna and his first appointment as Kapellmeister to the Bishop...

Johann Michael Haydn worked for over 40 years at the prince-archbishop's court in Salzburg, for whom he composed most of his works. The St. Francis Mass, on the other hand, was commissioned by the imp...

contains: Solo aria "O coelitum beati" (G major); choral movement "Alleluia" (C major)

Joseph Martin Kraus, who was born in the same year as Mozart and, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and died far too young, has been receiving more attention again in rece...

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Two complete Requiem settings by Johann Adolf Hasse have survived. Hasse composed the C major Requiem for the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. Only a few weeks later, his son Elector Friedrich Chris...

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 two Kyrie settings in E flat K. 322 (1778/79) and in C K. 323 (probably not before 1790) are among the works by Mozart that only exist as incomplete draft scores. In both cases, however, Mozart's...

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 English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented a complete version of Mozart's Requiem. "Another version?" you might think, as there are now a whole series of other versions available al...

The Carus Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1800 as its main source. Haydn had it self-published, contrary to his usual practice, in order to avoid unauthorized pre-public...

The Carus Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1800 as its main source. Haydn had it self-published, contrary to his usual practice, in order to avoid unauthorized pre-public...

In Eisenstadt in 1770/71, Haydn composed his four-movement Salve Regina, which is characterized by the concertante use of the organ. Haydn proves to be a master in the musical realization of the Maria...

Joseph Haydn set the Ambrosian Canticle to music twice in the course of his life. The "Te Deum" for Empress Marie Therese was composed around 1800 and thus falls into his late creative phase. The larg...

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...