Mass in C major KV 257
The Mass in C major , KV 257, generally known as the Credo Mass or (to distinguish it from the Small Credomesse KV 192) called the Great Credo Mass , is a mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for soloists , four-part choir , orchestra and organ . Leopold Mozart called it “Spaur Messe” in a letter to Wolfgang Amadeus in 1778.
The work is sometimes referred to as the Missa brevis , but with a playing time of approx. 25 minutes it exceeds the scope of a brevis mass. In the set of parts found in Brixen, which apparently was used for the first performance, it is titled Missa solemnis in C. Leopold Mozart wrote it in his anthology Missa longa, but it is about 5–6 minutes shorter than the Missæ longæ KV 167 and KV 262, which had previously been composed by Wolfgang Amadeus .
history
The mass was premiered on November 17, 1776 in Salzburg Cathedral , the occasion was the ordination of Salzburg canon Ignaz von Spaur (1729–1779) by Archbishop Hieronymus as bishop. Spaur had been canon of Salzburg since 1755 and canon in Brixen since 1763 . In 1776 he took up the office of the diocese coadjutor of Brixen, with an assured successor as bishop.
Mozart created a new mass for this festival. On the one hand, this process is explained by the offices of Leopold and Wolfgang Amadé at the Salzburg court as Kapell- and Concertmaster , on the other hand, by the friendly relationship between the two of them and Count Ignaz von Spaur. Ignaz von Spaur almost certainly took this work with him to Brixen when he moved permanently from Salzburg to Brixen in 1776. The sheet music could be recognized as that of the world premiere in 2007, and so the riddle of identifying the “Spaur Mass” by Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider was solved. Previously, for decades, following an unproven assumption by Alfred Einstein in the 3rd edition of the Köchel catalog, the Missa brevis in C major KV 258 had been viewed as a Spaur mass; the Missa longa in C major KV 262 was also considered a possible candidate.
construction
The structure of the mass follows the ordinarium :
- Kyrie . Andante maestoso - Allegro (solos and choir)
- Gloria . Allegro assai (solos and choir)
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Creed
- Credo in unum Deum. Molto allegro (choir)
- Et incarnatus est. Andante (solos and choir)
- Et resurrexit. Molto allegro (solos and choir)
- Sanctus . Allegretto (choir)
- Benedictus . Allegro (solos) - Hosanna. Molto allegro (choir)
- Agnus Dei . Andante maestoso (solos and choir)
occupation
- Soli SATB, mixed choir SATB
- 2 oboes
- 2 trumpets in C.
- Timpani
- 3 trumpets ad libitum ( colla parte )
- 2 violins
- Bass group: organ , cello , double bass
See also
literature
- Hartmut Schick : The "Great Credo Mass" or "Spaur Mass" KV 257. In: Silke Leopold (Hrsg.): Mozart Handbook. Metzler and Bärenreiter, Stuttgart and Kassel 2005, ISBN 3-476-02077-0 , pp. 192–194.
- Alfred Beaujean: Missa brevis in C major KV 257 ("Credo Mass"). In: Hans Gebhard (Ed.): Harenberg Chormusikführer. Harenberg, Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-611-00817-6 , p. 608.
Web links
- Missa in C : Score and critical report in the New Mozart Edition
- Mass in C major KV 257 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Sheet music in the public domain of Mass in C major KV 257 in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
- Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider: To the Spaur-Messe KV 257 by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
- First edition based on the part manuscript revised by Leopold and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart by hand
- Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider: "Riddle of international Mozart research solved" (June 2007) (PDF; 116 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ The letters of WA Mozart and his family. Volume 4. Munich / Leipzig 1914, pp. 25–35 Letter from Leopold Mozart to his wife and son, Salzburg, May 28, 1778 at Zeno.org .
- ^ Walter Senn : Foreword. In: New Mozart Edition. Volume I.1.1.3: Measure. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1980, p. XIV f. ( online ).