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Mass in D minor, K. 65

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Missa brevis in D minor
Mass by W. A. Mozart
KeyD minor
CatalogueK. 65/61a
Composed14 January 1769 (1769-01-14): Salzburg
Movements6
VocalSATB choir and soloists
Instrumental
  • 3 trombones
  • 2 violins
  • continuo

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.

The long held belief, based on Sigismund Keller's assertion in 1873,[2] that this mass was first performed on 5 February 1769 in the University of Salzburg's Kollegienkirche to open a forty-hour vigil,[3][4][5] has later been shown as untenable.[6] As a Lenten mass, the Gloria could not have been performed.[3]

This is Mozart's shortest setting of the Order of Mass, and his only missa brevis set in a minor key.[4]

The mass is divided into six movements.

  1. Kyrie Adagio, D minor, common time
    "Kyrie eleison" – Allegro, D minor, 3/4
  2. Gloria Allegro moderato, D minor, common time
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Benedictus Andante, G minor, common time; soprano/alto duet
    "Hosanna in excelsis" Allegro, D minor, 3/4
  6. Agnus Dei Andante, D minor, common time
    "Dona nobis pacem" Vivace, D minor, 3/8

References

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  1. ^ Deutsch, Otto Erich (1966). Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Stanford University Press. p. 86.
  2. ^ Sigismund Keller. "Wolfgang Am. Mozart in Salzburg im Jahre 1769", Monatshefte für Musik-Geschichte [de], vol V, (1873), p. 122
  3. ^ a b Einstein, Alfred (1945). Mozart: His Character, His Work. p. 326 – via Internet Archive.(registration required)
  4. ^ a b Bruce C. MacIntyre [at Wikidata] (2006). "Mass". In Eisen, Cliff; Keefe, Simon (eds.). The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-139-44878-9. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  5. ^ Sadie, Stanley (2006). Mozart: The Early Years 1756–1781. W. W. Norton. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-19-816529-3 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Walter Senn [de]. Neue Mozart-Ausgabe I.1.1. Messen vol 1. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1968, "Preface", p. 12
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