Mozart: Coronation Mass / Exsultate, Jubilate / Ave Verum Corpus

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Cat No: 8550495

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 4891030504950

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)Mass in C Major, K. 317 (Coronation Mass) Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 Ave verum corpus, K. 618Mozart's life was all too short. Born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a leading court musician, he amazed Europe as an infant prodigy, undertaking protracted tours under the guidance of his father. Adolescence and early manhood proved less satisfying. The Mozarts had security in Salzburg, but the city, under its new Archbishop, seemed to have little to offer, and Mozart was certain that he deserved something better. In 1781, after fulfilling a successful commission in Munich with his opera Idomeneo, he travelled to Vienna to join his patron, the Archbishop. When he was denied the opportunities that seemed within his grasp and particularly the chance of making some impression on the Emperor, he quarrelled with his employer and, not for the first but now for the last time, was dismissed.Mozart spent the last ten years of his life principally in Vienna, without consistent patronage adequate to his needs and without the constant presence and advice of his father, who remained in Salzburg. An imprudent marriage made increasing demands on his purse, and initial success in the theatre and in public subscription concerts was followed by disappointment and the need to borrow money to meet expenses normal to one of his station. In 1791, however, his fortunes seemed to have changed for the better. From the new Emperor he had received nothing, but the German opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) won popular success in the autumn, and there was the prospect of a position as adjunct to the ailing Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of St. Stephen in Vienna, with the likelihood of succession in due course. Death intervened. Mozart died in the early hours of 5th December, after a short illness.The so-called Coronation Mass, the Mass in C major, K. 317, was completed on 23rd March, 1779, in Salzburg, where Mozart had returned after an abortive attempt to find employment in Mannheim and in Paris. He had been compelled to resign from the Archbishop's service in order to undertake a journey on which, for the first time, his father had been unable to accompany him. The fifteen months away had been expensive in monetary terms and his mother, who went with him, had died in Paris in the summer of 1778. Eventually his father managed to arrange for him a position again at Salzburg, this time as court organist, a post for which he made a formal petition in January 1779.The composition of the Coronation Mass may be seen as a concomitant of Mozart's new duties in Salzburg. The work was apparently intended for performance at one of the two festival days of Easter in the same year, either 4th or 5th April, together with the Epistle Sonata K. 329, with its more elaborate organ part, which Mozart himself would have played. The popular name of the work, the Coronation Mass, has been supposed to originate in the association of the Mass with a commemo
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