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Missa brevis in D minor |
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Key |
D minor |
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Catalogue |
K. 65/61a |
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Occasion | Forty-hour
vigil held at the Kollegienkirche |
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Composed | 1769 (1769): Salzburg |
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Movements | 6 |
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Vocal |
SATB choir and soloists |
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Instrumental | - 3 trombones
- 2 violins
- continuo
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The Missa brevis in
D minor,
K. 65/61a, is a mass composed by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12 years old at the time) and completed on 14 January 1769.
[1] It is scored for
SATB soloists and choir,
violin I and II, 3
trombones
colla parte, and
basso continuo.
It is thought that this mass was performed in the
University of Salzburg's
Kollegienkirche to open a forty-hour
vigil.
[2]
[3] As a
Lenten mass, it is likely that the
Gloria could not have been performed on this occasion, and would have been composed for subsequent use.
[4] This is Mozart's shortest setting of the
Order of Mass, and his only
missa brevis set in a
minor key.
[3]
The mass is divided into six movements.
- Kyrie Adagio, D minor, common time
- "Kyrie eleison" – Allegro, D minor, 3/4
- Gloria Allegro moderato, D minor, common time
- Credo Allegro moderato, D minor, 3/4
- "Et incarnatus est" Adagio, D minor, cut common time
- "Et resurrexit" Allegro moderato, D minor, 3/4
- "Et vitam venturi saeculi" Più mosso, D minor, cut common time
- Sanctus Adagio, D minor, cut common time
- "Pleni sunt coeli et terra" Allegro, D minor, common time
- "Hosanna in excelsis" Allegro, D minor, 3/4
- Benedictus Andante, G minor, common time;
soprano/
alto
duet
- "Hosanna in excelsis" Allegro, D minor, 3/4
- Agnus Dei Andante, D minor, common time
- "Dona nobis pacem" Vivace, D minor, 3/8
References
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Masses and
Requiem |
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G major, K. 49/47d
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Waisenhausmesse C minor, K. 139/47a
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D minor, K. 65/61a
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Dominicusmesse C major, K. 66
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Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis C major, K. 167
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Kleine Credo Messe F major, K. 192/186f
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D major, K. 194/186h
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Sparrow Mass C major, K. 220/196b
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Missa longa C major, K. 262/246a
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Credo Mass C major, K. 257
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Piccolomini Mass or Spaur Mass C major, K. 258
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Orgelsolomesse C major, K. 259
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B-flat major, K. 275/272b
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Coronation Mass C major, K. 317
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Missa Solemnis C major, K. 337
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Great Mass C minor, K. 427/417a
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Requiem, K. 626
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