Mass in D minor, K. 65
1769 composition by W. A. Mozart
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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.
| Missa brevis in D minor | |
|---|---|
| Mass by W. A. Mozart | |
| Key | D minor |
| Catalogue | K. 65/61a |
| Composed | 14 January 1769: Salzburg |
| Movements | 6 |
| Vocal | SATB choir and soloists |
| Instrumental |
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The long held belief, based on Sigismund Keller's assertion in 1873,[2] that this mass was first performed on 5 February 1769, the pre-Lenten Sunday of Quinquagesima, 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.
- 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
