The mature sacred-music language of Haydn and Mozart, with its orderly division of major text sections into shorter choruses and arias, may seem to have sprung out of nowhere, for the links between Baroque and Classical in the choral field are mostly missing links from the standpoint of contemporary performance. The Mass No. 12 from Dresden composer Johann David Heinichen heard on this disc dates from early in the eighteenth century, but it helps fill in the gap -- like many of the Haydn and Mozart masses it was what ...
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The mature sacred-music language of Haydn and Mozart, with its orderly division of major text sections into shorter choruses and arias, may seem to have sprung out of nowhere, for the links between Baroque and Classical in the choral field are mostly missing links from the standpoint of contemporary performance. The Mass No. 12 from Dresden composer Johann David Heinichen heard on this disc dates from early in the eighteenth century, but it helps fill in the gap -- like many of the Haydn and Mozart masses it was what observers of the time called a "number mass," with the Gloria and Sanctus divided into four sections each and the Credo into five (the Kyrie and Agnus dei feature the natural tripartite form). Heinichen's sections are very short, with many of them devoted to some kind of instrumental effect. His fugal movements fall for the most part where Haydn's do, but they too are quite short; they're not impressive pieces of counterpoint. Heinichen's text-setting, on the other hand, is varied and...
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