Mozart Mass

[MozartMassCredo]

There are really good discoveries when something in history comes back to be a revelant event today. Well, the Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been revived back in the 80s with the movie AMADEUS, and now as the Traditional Latin Mass has been sparked up in extraordinay manner, we have another timely event: the Rediscovery of a lost Mozart Mass Text. Here’s the article, I like to share this with all who love classical music and the Holy Gregorian Tridentine Mass:

news.aol.com/article/library-unearths-unknown-mozart-work/180015

PARIS (Sept. 18) - It’s a forgotten melody, sketched in black ink in a swift but sure hand.
The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, has been verified as the work of Mozart, the apparent underpinnings for a Mass he never composed.

A library archive in Nantes, France, hid a treasure – a single page of sheet music by the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Staff made the discovery while organizing the library archives. The sheet was donated by a 19th century autograph collector.

The previously undocumented music fragment gives insight into Mozart’s evolving composition style and provides a clue about the role religion may have played for the composer as his life neared its turbulent end, one prominent Mozart expert says.
A library in Nantes, western France, has had the fragment in its collection since the 19th century, but it had never been authenticated until now, partly because it does not bear Mozart’s signature.

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[Holy_Crucifix]

How wonderful!

 

[Jacafamala]

Wow, what a find.

And in January of next year, the Nantes library says, Mozart’s 18th century Mass is expected to have its first performance.

I look forward to hearing the “new Mass”.

 

[MozartMassCredo]

Yes - I hope the new piece is produced onto a CD or DVD with the Boys Choir of Vienna, and perhaps Andrea Bocelli?

 

[mattkubes]

Wow, I’m excited to hear it. If it has anything half as nice as his “Ave Verum Corpus”…well, let’s just say I’m glad they found it

 

[Sarabande]

I was so thrilled when I heard about this new discovery. His secular and sacred music are so sublime and I love singing his music. When I was studying music in Salzburg (Mozart’s birth town) the Cathedral there did a Mozart mass every Sunday and the Cathedral would be packed. It’s funny to think that during Mozart’s time, the bishop could stand his sacred music for mass (although the bishop in Vienna LOVED it), and now you walk down the street and you hear Mozart everywhere - in the churches, at concerts, the opera, on the foot bridge, kids you pass by practicing their voice parts for something they will be singing later on, the music students at the Mozarteum in their practice rooms or in recitals. It was like a musical fairyland, and a very Catholic city for me when I was there. LOL

Thank you for sharing this info. I’m such a Mozart fan, as you can tell. hahahaha!

 

[MozartMassCredo]

Well we live in a neo-Renaissance with the great singers performing the Classical Arias.

I highly recommend listening the Great Tenors, Godfathers of Arias: Enrico Caruso, Mario del Monaco, Franco Corelli, Mario Lanza, Pio Corelli, Beniamino Gigli, and Perry Como… I highly recommend this CD called “Classic Sacred Arias” which is a collection of these Masters:

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No doubt, Pavarotti, Bocelli, Placido Domingo, etc. are the smoother very polished professional Tenors, and they are Masters in many ways. But, please hear del Monaco, Franco Corelli, Mario Lanza, Pio Corelli - they are Magnus Masters.

Andrea Bocelli stands by himself as the ‘Virtuoso Voce’ with Mario Lanza also is there as balance between Great Tenor and Mild Tenor. I compare Bocelli with Rafael the painter, Michelangelo with Pavarotti, and Da Vinci perhaps with Mario Lanza?

Of course Caruso sits by himself as the Godfather of Tenors, and Pavarotti will be remembered for his tribute to Caruso. Caruso is a Pater Patria.

These Artists, people, I tell you would be a prize for the Medici, Florence, and the Pope of Romes in the Great Renaissance.

I agree, honestly, I never heard a more perfect voice for the Ave Verum of Mozart then that of Bocelli. No doubt - God created Andrea for this purpose. In fact, Mozart wrote it for Andrea to sing it.

I pray that he can live up to this awesome vocation as Cantor-Tenor.

 

[EllieMary]

Years ago in a provincial Cathedral,we sang a most beautiful Motzart Mass (wish I knew now precisely which one) with such enjoyment that I can still remember it fifty years later. And of course the Ave Verum too.

These days we are told that anything of that standard in sacred music is “too hard” or “the people can’t understand it” Maybe this new find will spark renewed interest…??? Oh for relief from the “Morning is Breaking” brigade. Thanks for the news!