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Haydn - Missa Brevis, Harmoniemesse | Naxos 8572126

Haydn - Missa Brevis, Harmoniemesse

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572126

Barcode: 0747313212675

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th November 2010

Contents

Artists

Trinity Choir
REBEL Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Jane Glover

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Mass in B flat major, Hob.XXII:14 'Harmoniemesse'
Mass in F major, Hob.XXII:1 'Missa Brevis'

Artists

Trinity Choir
REBEL Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Jane Glover

About

The Missa brevis in F is Haydn’s earliest authenticated Mass and was written shortly before his departure from St Stephen’s in Vienna, where he had been recruited as a choirboy around 1740. Haydn himself, on rediscovering the work almost fifty years later, said he admired it for ‘the melody and a certain youthful fire’.

In contrast, the Harmoniemesse, written for the nameday festivities of Prince Nicolaus II’s wife in 1802, was to be Haydn’s last major composition. Using a full Harmonie (wind band), the work’s expressive intensity belies the end of its composer’s career.

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