Description
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Instrumentation: Orchestra, Double Choir (SATB + SATB)
- Work: Davide penitente, K. 469
- Binding: Paperback
- Work Language: Latin
- ISMN: 9790007074425
- Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
- Pages: 80
- Urtext / Critical Edition
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The Vienna Musicians’ Society, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, asked Mozart, among others, to compose a choral work for performance at their benefit concert series. Presumably it was due not just to the pressure of a deadline, but also for the chance to have the music of the torso of the great in C Minor Mass, K. 427, performed in Vienna that he chose to arrange this composition for the Society as the cantata Davide penitente (The Mass was originally written for a performance in Salzburg in 1783). Thus, Mozart set the Kyrie and Gloria with a sacred text in Italian in the style of penitential prayers. The text was suited for Lent, which occurred at the time of the benefit concert. He also added one newly-composed aria for tenor and one aria for soprano.
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