Although you would never know it from the extent to which it has been recorded, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Great Mass" in C minor comes down to us incomplete and represents one of his most problematic scores. The two principal scores in which the music is found, namely Mozart's manuscript and a set of parts for a 1783 performance of the piece, have contradictory elements. Aloïs Schmitt of publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel cobbled together a performing version in 1901 ending in the "Benedictus," which has become the ...
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Although you would never know it from the extent to which it has been recorded, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Great Mass" in C minor comes down to us incomplete and represents one of his most problematic scores. The two principal scores in which the music is found, namely Mozart's manuscript and a set of parts for a 1783 performance of the piece, have contradictory elements. Aloïs Schmitt of publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel cobbled together a performing version in 1901 ending in the "Benedictus," which has become the standard. Though some second-opinion editions have come along in the meantime, musicologist Robert Levin has sourced original Mozart sketch pages relating to this work that have not been properly understood in the past in creating this new, 2004 edition of the C minor Mass. In it, Levin has managed to bring forward a complete liturgical mass setting of the kind Mozart likely intended for this work, running nearly a half an hour longer than most other versions.While that is great news for...
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