Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 5 |
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Composition Year | MS dated to 1654–1696 |
Genre Categories | Masses; Religious works; For 16 voices, 2 mixed choruses, 2 organs, orchestra; |
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Work Title | Missa Salisburgensis |
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Alternative. Title | Missa Salisburgensis à 54 |
Name Translations | Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci; Messa salisburghese; Зальцбургская месса; Salzburgin juhlamessu |
Authorities | WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 182287847; LCCN: no00081137; GND: 300855486; |
Composer | Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | C App. 101 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IHB 12 |
Key | C major |
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's | 5 |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | MS dated to 1654–1696 |
First Performance. | 1682 – Salzburg |
First Publication. | 1903 |
Language | Latin (and Greek, Kyrie) |
Average DurationAvg. Duration | 36’ |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Baroque |
Piece Style | Baroque |
Instrumentation | Voices: 4 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses + 2 mixed choruses (SSAATTBB, SSAATTBB) Orchestra: 4 recorders, 2 oboes + 2 cornettos, 10 trumpets, 3 trombones + 2 timpani (4 drums) + 2 organs + 4 violins, 8 violas + continuo |
Now thought to have been composed for the 1100th anniversary of the founding of the archbishopric of Salzburg in 1682, the colossal score of the Missa Salisburgensis (the folios are 82×57 cm in size!) was rediscovered in the late 19th century. Study of the watermarks in the manuscript dates the work to between 1654 and 1696, making for a plausible ascription of the work to Orazio Benevoli (1605–72) on chronological grounds only, and possibly Andreas Hofer (c.1629–1684) and Heinrich Biber (1644–1704) on stylistic grounds as well. The work could not appear to have been composed as early as 1628 for the consecration of Salzburg cathedral, as Guido Adler mistakenly presumed when publishing the first modern score in 1903.
Only as late as the 1970s did Ernst Hintermaier firmly link the composer of this mass to another similar work, the Missa Bruxellensis, the MS of which has been dated between 1696 and 1704 by similar study of its watermarks. Aside from numerous compositional traits observed by Eric Thomas Chafe that these two works share in common with Biber’s other firmly authenticated masses, the most probable ascription based on the chronology and documentary evidence for the Salzburg and Brussels masses points to Biber.
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