Missa Sunt bona mixta malis

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The Missa Sunt bona mixta malis in D minor ( Hob. XXII: 2) is a fragmentary preserved mass by Joseph Haydn from the year 1768. The nickname Sunt bona mixta malis ('The good is mixed with the bad') is a to A Latin proverb widely used by Haydn during his lifetime, which was added to the title page of the manuscript as a rather ironic commentary. The actual title of the work is Missa a 4tro voci alla Cappella .

The work, which Haydn mentioned in his handwritten draft catalog, was thought to be lost for over 150 years until it was rediscovered in a farmhouse in Northern Ireland in 1983.

The mass consists of two preserved parts: a fully executed Kyrie and a Gloria , which breaks off after the “Gratias agimus”. This condition had already been described by the publisher Vincent Novello , who bought the autograph in 1829. It is not known whether Haydn did not finish the mass or the fair copy was canceled for some other reason. The mass is written for four-part choir and basso continuo . The performance lasts about 6 minutes.

literature

  • David Wyn Jones: "Haydn's Missa sunt bona mixta malis and the a cappella tradition." In: ders. (Ed.): Music in Eighteenth-Century Austria. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York / Melbourne 1996, ISBN 0-521-45349-6 , pp. 89–111 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Peter Ickstadt: Joseph Haydn's masses: Studies on the form and relationship between text and music (= musicological publications, volume 31). Olms, Hildesheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-487-13996-8 , p. 91 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search). At the same time dissertation University of Saarbrücken 2008.

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