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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...

Mozart's Veni Sancte Spiritus KV 47 was composed in Vienna in 1768. The two-part setting of the Pentecost sequence (Come, Holy Spirit) follows the text of the antiphon Ad invocandum Spiritum Sanctum a...

According to recent research, the offertory "Benedictus sit Deus" K. 117 (66a) is identical to the offertory K. 47b, which was believed to be lost. It was intended for the dedication of the orphanage...

The four-movement "Regina coeli" K. 108 (74d), composed in Salzburg in May 1771, is clearly modeled on Neapolitan church music in terms of expression and texture. The mostly homophonic chorus of the t...

The "Regina coeli" K. 127, composed in Salzburg in May 1772, largely corresponds in expression and formal structure to the first work of the same name, K. 108 (74d), on the same Marian antiphon. In co...

The "Regina coeli" KV 276 (321b ) was composed in Salzburg after the composer's return from Paris. The occasion, date and autograph are unknown. However, its relationship to the first movement of Vesp...

In addition to masses, requiems and vespers, Mozart's larger works of church music include the four litanies, all of which were composed in Salzburg. After returning from his first trip to Italy (Dece...

The importance Mozart attached to his vespers can be seen from the fact that in a letter dated March 12, 1783 he asked his father to send the two works to him in Vienna in order to make them known to...

The importance Mozart attached to his vespers can be seen from the fact that in a letter dated March 12, 1783 he asked his father to send the two works to him in Vienna in order to make them known to...

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...

How practical: This choral masterpiece is now appearing in a handy and affordable soft-cover score to complement the substantial linen-bound complete edition volume. The tried-and-tested musical text...

The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did n...

2nd version in D major with 4 interludes of the E flat major version (transposed). Urtext of the New Bach Edition. Soprano solo (2), alto solo, tenor solo, bass solo, mixed choir-SSATB, flute (2), obo...

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...

Franz Schubert's 'Stabat Mater' D 175 is one of a number of church works that he wrote for his local congregation in Lichtental. This edition is based on the sole surviving source, the composer's auto...

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...

The "Sparrow Mass" in an arrangement for women's choir The "Missa in C" KV 220 has established a firm place in the repertoire of many choirs to this day. The so-called "Sparrow Mass", which owes its n...

The edition of the Mass in B minor as part of the New Bach Edition was and is the standard for generations of musicians. The first volume of the revised new edition now presented by Uwe Wolf offers mu...