thank you for posting this comrade, I heard this during the midnight Christmas mass last year in St. Peter's abbey, Salzburg. I was captivated by the Dona Nobis Pacem... I knew that it was a Mozart missa but I forgot the specifics numbering etc... But now, I found it again while listening random Mozart stuff in youtube.
Wow @ 8:44 ... someone with suffieient talent and imagination ought to develop this gorgeous fugato into a full choral fugue. Mozart has laid out the ingredients here.
Here's a fun fact: in his book "Haydn, Mozart and the Viennese School", Daniel Heartz tells of a set of parts dating from 1810 that bears an inscription forbidding this Mass’s future performance because the piece is a “mockery of the holy text.”
@@hoseinexile07 the Kyrie, and the Dona Nobis Pacem, both feature bright and delightful tunes - the latter has been compared to the conclusion of Entführung. Some Austrian Catholics of the time might have thought that the text “Lord, have mercy” and “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, grant us peace” needed more grave or humble music, instead of bright and catchy tunes. Similar sentiments, with more or less severity, have been put forth by others. Stravinsky referred to Mozart masses, in passing, as “rococo-operatic sweets of sin.”
@@michaelp4657 Thanks! That's so funny on all counts. I'll have to listen to Entführung Aus Dem Serail again to see if I can detect similarities. I'm Catholic and a Mozart fan (his Ave Verum Corpus is one of my favorite pieces of music ever written), so this is definitely in my wheelhouse.
@@michaelp4657 that quote by Stravinsky seems taken out of context "'Music', he continues, 'is as well or better able to praise than the building of the church and all its decoration: it is the Church's greatest ornament ... religious music without religion is almost always vulgar.'" < Lennox Berkeley and Friends: Writing, Letters and Interviews. By Lennox Berkeley, Page 125 > "Religious music without religion is almost always vulgar . It can also be dull . There is dull church music from Hucbald to Haydn , but not vulgar church music . ( Of course there is vulgar church music now , but it is not really of or for the church ." < Stravinsky, by Roman Vlad - Page 208 > "Religious music without religion is almost always vulgar. It can also be dull. There is dull church music from Hucbald to Haydn, but not vulgar church music. (Of course there is vulgar church music now, but it is not really of or for the Church.) " < Caecilia, Volumes 86-87, Society of Saint Caecilia, 1959 > "So, why did Stravinsky, in 1944, begin work on a liturgical musical form which was alien to his own religious tradition? The answer may be found in his Expositions, where he recounts finding some Masses by Mozart in a second-hand shop in Los Angeles in 1942. He wrote: 'As I played through these rococo-operatic sweets-of-sin, I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one'. By 'real one' he may have meant a Roman Catholic one that would allow the use of instruments - Stravinsky wrote that he could '…endure unaccompanied singing in only the most harmoniously primitive music'. Like Howells, he eschewed the decorative style and set out to write a work which would be '…very cold music, absolutely cold, that will appeal directly to the spirit'." Barry Creasy Chairman Collegium Musicum of London
As in the link in description: Eva Mei, soprano; Elisabeth von Magnus, alto; Kurt Azesberger, tenor; Gilles Cachemaille, bass; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Concentus Musicus, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
🎶 LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more score videos! → ru-vid.com 🎶 SUBSCRIBE to my PATREON! → patreon.com/stefanopaparozzi I. Kyrie [0:00] II. Gloria [1:44] III. Credo [4:28] IV. Sanctus [8:43] V. Benedictus [10:14] VI. Agnus Dei [13:13] (Dona nobis pacem [15:27])