Sheet Music Downloads by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart's Missa in C K. 317, composed in 1779 and known as the "Coronation Mass", is one of the most popular settings of the mass text due to its festive character and rich variety of musical ideas. Th...

The name "Credo Mass" is derived from the "Credo" calls that repeatedly interrupt the corresponding movement. Composed at the end of 1776, the mass impresses with its wealth of invention condensed int...

On the occasion of the inauguration of a new orphanage on Vienna's Rennweg, the just twelve-year-old Mozart appeared before the audience as composer and conductor with his "Missa solemnis " in c K. 13...

The Spatzenmesse is one of the most important church music works from Mozart's Salzburg period. With a performance time of around 17 minutes, it met the requirements of the archbishop of the time for...

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...

By repeating the complete text, the through-composed motet is divided into two parts, preceded by an instrumental prelude and followed by a coda ("Alleluia").

Since the two verifiable autographs of the Offertorium Misericordias Domini have been lost, Robert Münster has for the first time used the copies he has found from the Munich court music for this new...

In this work, one finds Mozart's Salzburg role models with regard to church music. The contrast between solo and tutti and the short imitative sections are reminiscent of Leopold Mozart, Eberlin and M...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Regina coeli" is the first of his three settings of the Marian antiphon for Vespers at Easter.

The autograph was initially lost after the Second World War, but was found again in 1964 and forms the basis for this new critical edition by Christine Martin. Compared to other sources, articulation...

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...

Of the vespers and vesper psalms that Mozart wrote for Salzburg Cathedral, the vesper parts "Dixit et Magnificat" are the earliest. Like the later complete vespers, they belong to the ecclesiastical a...

Mozart's "Sancta Maria" is one of those liturgical chants that are based on the time of the church year or the respective feast of the saints. It was probably sung on a feast of the Virgin Mary follow...

This Litany of the Virgin Mary is the first and simplest of the four litanies that Mozart composed in Salzburg in 1771-76. Due to the simple scoring - the trombone choir which joins the church trio on...

The litany consists of six movements, which are divided into nine differently characterized sections. It is clearly based on the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries.

It was during Mozart's last years at Salzburg, 1779 and 1780, that he composed the two sets of Vespers, KV 321 and KV 339. The music ot these Vespers gives no indication of Mozart's many grounds for a...

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...

Composed in the autumn of 1768 during an extended stay in Vienna, this work marks the beginning of a series of masses in which Mozart was always concerned with the expression of true and genuine churc...

The "Missa brevis in D minor" is one of the few masses that Mozart wrote in a minor key. Only two others, the "Missa solemnis", K. 139, and the "Great Mass", K. 427, are also in a minor key.

The "Missa brevis in F" KV 192 (186f) is a highlight among Mozart's youth masses. The music is extremely accessible and charming, and due to the Credo calls interspersed throughout the third movement,...

In the summer of 1774, Mozart wrote two masses in close proximity to each other, the Missa brevis in F K. 192 and the Missa brevis in D K. 194. Both compositions are characterized by a more or less pr...

The nickname of this mass is due to the independent solo presence of the organ instrument during the "Benedictus" section. K. 259 is thus part of a tradition dating back to the 1730s, which can be tra...

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...