St. Francis Mass

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St. Francis Mass
by Michael Haydn
Portrait of Michael Haydn by Franz Xaver Hornock.jpg
The composer
Native nameMissa sub titulo Sancti Francisci Seraphici
Catalogue
  • Klafsky I:23
  • MH 826
Occasionname day
Text Mass ordinary
LanguageLatin
Composed1803 (1803)
Movements6
Vocal SATB choir and soloists
Instrumentalorchestra

The St. Francis Mass is the shorter name for the Missa sub titulo Sancti Francisci Seraphici (Klafsky I:23, MH 826) composed by Michael Haydn. He completed it on 16 August 1803, apparently at the request of Empress Maria Theresa for a name day celebration. [1]

The score calls for a quartet of vocal soloists, mixed choir, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings with an organ to play basso continuo.

  1. "Kyrie" Adagio, D minor, 3/4
    —"Christe eleison" Allegro con brio
    —"Kyrie eleison" D major
    —"Kyrie eleison" Adagio, D minor
  2. "Gloria" Vivace molto, D major, common time
    —"Domine Deus, rex coelestis..." Andante, G major, 3/8
    —"Qui tollis..." D major
    —"Suscipe..." A minor
    —"Miserere..." B minor
    —"Quoniam..." Vivace molto, D major, common time
  3. "Credo" Allegro, D major, 3/8
    —"Et incarnatus est..." Largo, F major, common time
    —"Et resurrexit..." Allegro con spirito, D major, 3/4
  4. "Sanctus" Andante maestoso, D major, cut time
  5. "Benedictus" Allegretto moderato, D major, cut time
  6. "Agnus Dei" Adagio molto, B minor, 3/4
    —"Dona nobis pacem..." Allegro, D major

Many composers have prolonged the setting of the word passus in the Credo through the use of techniques such as melisma, syncopation, and suspension. In this mass, however, Haydn prolongs the word simply by using two "longer note values than have occurred earlier in the setting". [2]

The mass was published in 1917 as Volume 45 of the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich , edited by Anton Maria Klafsky.

Unlike the Requiem in C minor, which was still in church use in Austria in the 20th century, [3] the St. Francis Mass disappeared from the repertoire at some point in the 19th century.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. Rice (2003) Cambridge p. 116 John Empress Marie Therese and music at the Viennese court, 1792—1807, Cambridge University Press, A.
  2. Jasmin Melissa Cameron (2006). The Crucifixion in Music: An Analytical Survey of the Crucifixus between 1680 and 1800 Contextual Bach Studies No. 1, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 106. See also the two pages after that for an excerpt of the passage under consideration.
  3. p. 2, Watson (1997) Derek. New York Bruckner Schirmer Books

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