German High Mass (Michael Haydn)

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Kyrie of the German High Mass: Here in front of Your Majesty lies the Christians in the dust

Deutsches Hochamt is the title of several German masses by Michael Haydn that are expressly declared “for use in town and country” (for town and country churches). While three of these settings are intended as high offices for performance by trained singers, choirs and orchestras, another embodies the type of praying mass for folk church singing.

Johann Michael Haydn set to music several times the text German complete high office published in 1777 by the Munich court chamber councilor Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner in his Landshut hymn book . The mass is usually titled with the first line of the opening song "Here lies before your majesty" and comprises 10 mass songs for choral or folk singing. The text is shaped by the spirit of the Enlightenment and has become a Catholic common good.

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  • At the opening / Kyrie: Here lies the Christians in the dust in front of Your Majesty
  • Gloria: God should be praised
  • Answer song: The gospel comes from God's mouth
  • On the creed: Almighty, before you in the dust your creature professes you
  • For the preparation of the gifts: Accept, O Lord, the gifts
  • Sanctus: Sing: Holy, Holy, Holy
  • After the change: See, father, from the highest throne
  • Agnus dei: contemplate him in pain
  • To communion: O Lord, I am not worthy
  • Thanksgiving song: Now the lamb has been slaughtered (alternative title im Gotteslob (1975), Austrian edition: In peace let's go )

German High Mass (MH 536)

The German high mass is performed for four mixed voices, organ obligatory, 2 violins, 2 horns or trumpets and timpani ad libitum . This setting in A major was created in Salzburg in 1793.

German High Mass (MH 560)

In 1795 Michael Haydn set Kohlbrenner's text to music for the second time. Although this version has echoes of the melodies by Norbert Hauner from the Landshut hymn book from 1777, it is nevertheless essentially to be regarded as a new creation by Haydn. The mass is often referred to simply as the Haydn mass . This second setting is probably the best known. It is printed in whole or in part in several regional sections of the Catholic church hymn book, God's praise .

The autograph of the mass has not survived, but it can be assumed that Haydn only wrote one organ part, consisting of two vocal parts in the text underlay in the upper staff and a figured bass in the lower staff. The first edition, which was published by Ignaz Sauer in Vienna in 1800, was notated for four-part choir and organ, the extension to four vocal parts was certainly made by the publisher Sauer. The second edition, which was published by Tobias Haslinger in 1827 , also offers a two- to nine-part instrumental line-up ad libitum , consisting of: 2  clarinets (or 2  violins ), 2  bassoons , 2  horns , 2  trumpets , timpani , double bass (or contrabassoon ) .

Franz Schubert relies on Haydn's example in his German Mass .

German High Mass (MH 602)

It is a mass in B flat major for four soloists and a two-part female choir, optionally for two or four mixed voices, accompanied by two horns and an organ. It was created in Salzburg in 1795.

German High Mass (MH 642)

This setting in B flat major for mixed choir and organ was written in Salzburg in 1797.

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literature

  • Barbara Krätschmer: The German Singing Mass of the Enlightenment with special consideration of the German high offices of Johann Michael Haydn. In: Singende Kirche , 33 (1986), ISSN  0037-5721 , pp. 11-17.
  • Charles H. Sherman, T. Donley Thomas: Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806), a chronological thematic catalog of his works. Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant, New York 1993, ISBN 0-918728-56-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The holy song for church services in the Roman Catholic Church. Landshut 1777 (reprint: Landshut 2003, ISBN 3-927612-20-0 ; urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11161747-7 ).