| From: Karen Mercedes To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: Mass in C Minor Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, David Menzies wrote:
> > I was just wondering if anyone out there had any information about the Mass > in C minor by Mozart. K 427. If anyone knows of any links on the internet, > that would be great. Thanks in advance.
This is from The Rough Guide to Classical Music:
Mass In C Minor
Mozart's Mass in C minor was his first non-commissioned Mass, which may well explain the music's breathtaking sense of personal utterance, but what remains unexplained is why he chose to leave the score incomplete. A number of suggestions have been made - the most watery-eyed being that he did not know how to finish a score already beyond perfection - but nothing convincing has yet emerged. Whatever the truth, movements such as the Qui tollis, with its soul-shuddering subito piani (sudden quiet), eclipse anything in the Requiem and only the latter half of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis stands comparison with this extraordinary, solemn, God-fearing work.
And here is the Mass in C Minor page at The Mozart Project web site: http://www.frontiernet.net/~sboerner/mozart/compositions/k_139__.html
KM ===== There is delight in singing, tho' none hear Beside the singer. - Walter Savage Landor ----- http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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