Mozart: Mass In C Minor, 'great Mass' / Kyrie In D Minor

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Cat No: 8554421

Release Date: 08 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 636943442128

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: MOZART

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Wolfgang AmadeusMozart (1756-1791)Mass in C minor, K 427'Great Mass'; Kyrie in D minor, K 341Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of theviolinist and composer Leopold Mozart, a musician employed by the rulingArchbishop. It was his father who superintended his education and his earlycareer as a child prodigy, made much of in the major cities of Europe.Adolescence brought employment in Salzburg, latterly under an unsympatheticpatron, but attempts to find a suitable position elsewhere, whether in Mannheimor in Paris, came to nothing. In 1781, after success at the court in Munichwith his newly commissioned opera Idomeneo, Mozart was summoned by theArchbishop to join his entourage in Vienna and it was there that he secured hisdismissal. The last ten years of his life were spent largely in Vienna, withouta patron or the necessary guidance of his careful father, but now with a wifewho had brought him no dowry. Initial success was followed by a period ofsevere financial difficulty, although by 1791 it seemed that matters might takea turn for the better. Anything of this kind was brought to an abrupt end byhis sudden death in December of that year.In a letter of 4th January 1783 to his father in Salzburg, Mozart refersto a reproach from his father in a letter now lost, referring to moralobligation, presumably to his father, to whom he had neglected to send New Yeargreetings, as would have been expected. He had married Constanze Weber withouthis father's approval a year earlier and it was only during the summer of 1783that he planned to take his wife to Salzburg to introduce her to his father andsister. In the same letter he refers to the coming fulfillment of a promise andto the score of half a Mass waiting to be finished, and it seems that this mustbe the Mass in C minor, K 427. The nature of the promise is not clear,but it may be presumed that the new composition was, in part at least, inthanksgiving for Constanze's recovery from illness, his marriage or the birth oftheir first child.In the event Mozart and his wife spent from 29th July to 27th October inSalzburg, so that there is a break in the informative and sometimes misleadingcorrespondence with his father. It seems from his sister Nannerl's diary,however, that a Mass by her brother was performed at the Benedictine AbbeyChurch of St Peter in Salzburg on 26th October, when her sister-in?¡-law was thesoprano soloist, after a rehearsal on the previous Thursday. It is mostprobable that the work in question was the present incomplete Mass,supplemented, it may be supposed, by movements from other Masses or plainchant.The date chosen for the performance was the Feast of St Amand, Bishop ofMaastricht, and one of the monastery's patron saints, when the Credo wasgenerally omitted, although on a Sunday it would have been required.Nevertheless Mozart never completed his setting of the Creda, and theparts of the movement that he had written were not performed. The Mass alsolacks a setti
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