Credo Mass (Mozart)

The Mass in C major, KV 257, Credo Mass or commonly called ( to distinguish it from the Little Credo Mass, K. 192) Great Credo Mass is a Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for soloists, four -part chorus, orchestra and organ. Leopold Mozart calls in 1778 in a letter to Wolfgang Amadeus However, " Spaur fair".

The work is sometimes called a Missa brevis, however, goes out with a playing time of about 25 minutes about the extent of Brevis fair. In the located in Brixen set of parts, which was apparently used at the first performance, it is titled Missa Solemnis in C with. Leopold Mozart wrote about in his anthology of Missa longa, but it is about 5-6 minutes shorter than the previously composed by Amade Missæ longae KV 167 and KV 262 takes you stylistically so an intermediate position.

The show premiered on November 17, 1776 in Salzburg Cathedral, The occasion was the consecration of Salzburg Ignaz canons of Spaur ( 1729-1779 ) by Archbishop Hieronymus bishop. Spaur was canon since 1755 to Salzburg and since 1763 have been canon in Bressanone. 1776, he joined the office of Bistumskoadjutors of Brixen, with assured bishop succession, at.

At this festival Mozart had created a new exhibition. On the one hand, this process is explained by the offices of Leopold and Wolfgang Amades the Salzburg court as Kapell- or concert master, the other by the friendly relationship between the two to Count Ignaz von Spaur. Almost certainly Ignaz von Spaur itself has taken this work to Brixen, as he moved in 1776 to a period of Salzburg to Brixen. The score could be recognized as the world premiere of 2007, and so the mystery surrounding the identification of the " Spaur Mass " by Hildegard Herrmann- Schneider was dissolved in a row. Previously, the Missa brevis C major KV was for decades a blank presumption Alfred Einstein in the 3rd edition of the Köchelverzeichnis following have been considered 258 Spaur Mass; the Missa longa in C major K. 262 was considered a possible candidate.