Harmoniemesse

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Harmoniemesse
Mass by Joseph Haydn
Key B-flat major
Catalogue Hob. XXII/14
Composed1802 (1802)
Movements6
Vocal SATB choir and soloists
InstrumentalOrchestra

The Harmoniemesse in B-flat major by Joseph Haydn, Hob. XXII:14, Novello 6, [1] was written in 1802. It was Haydn's last major work. It is because of the prominence of the winds in this mass and "the German terminology for a kind of wind ensemble, Harmonie ," [2] that this mass setting is called "Harmoniemesse" or "Wind Band Mass". Besides flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in B-flat, 2 trumpets in B-flat, the mass also calls for choir, timpani, strings, and organ, the latter supplying figured bass for most of the duration.

Contents

The setting is divided into six movements.

  1. Kyrie Poco Adagio, B-flat major, 3/4
  2. Gloria Vivace assai, B-flat major, common time
    "Gratias agimus" Allegretto, E-flat major, 3/8
    "Quoniam tu solus sanctus" Allegro spiritoso, common time, B-flat major
  3. Credo Vivace, B-flat major, common time
    "Et incarnatus est" Adagio, E-flat major, 3/4
    "Et resurrexit" Vivace, B-flat major, common time
    "Et vitam venturi" Vivace, 6/8
  4. Sanctus Adagio, B-flat major, 3/4
  5. Benedictus Molto Allegro, F major, common time
    "Osanna" 3/4, B-flat major
  6. Agnus Dei Adagio, G major, 3/4
    "Dona nobis pacem" Allegro con spirito, B-flat major, cut time

The Kyrie has "the most striking 'introductory' shock in Haydn's late vocal music ... a rather long orchestral introduction ... [with] unceasing contrasts between soft and loud, and the unexpected entry of G-flat, the flat submediant, in the fifth bar." [3] The Agnus Dei makes reference both to the Adagio of Symphony No. 98 and to Mozart's Coronation Mass. [4]

The Harmoniemesse was performed at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City for the Mass of the Solemnity of Pentecost on 31 May 2009, which coincided with the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death.

Recordings

SoloistsChorus and OrchestraConductorLabelYear
Wilma Lipp, Margarita Kenney, Waldemar Kmentt, Keith EngenChor und Orchester der Wiener StaatsoperJonathan SternbergNixa1956
Erna Spoorenberg, Helen Watts, Alexander Young, Joseph RouleauChoir Of St. John's College, Cambridge, Academy of St. Martin in the FieldsGeorge GuestDecca1966
Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade, Kenneth Riegel, Simon EstesWestminster Choir, New York PhilharmonicLeonard BernsteinSony1973
Barbara Martig-Tüller, Ria Bollen, Adalbert Kraus, Kurt Widmer Bachchor Mainz, Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Diethard Hellmann Calig1981
Joanne Lunn, Sara Mingardo, Topi Lehtipuu, Brindley Sherratt Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner Philips2001
Mireille Asselin, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Jermy Budd, Sumner Thompson,Handel and Haydn SocietyHarry ChristophersCORO2019

See also

Die Schöpfung & Harmoniemesse (Leonard Bernstein recording)

Notes

  1. p. 265 (1974) Hugues
  2. Strimple (2008) p. 19
  3. Sisman (1997) p. 73
  4. Heartz (2008) p. 662

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