Salzburg: Baroque Music: Missa aulica

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Enjoy this music by Franz Xaver Brixi, a Bohemian composer from 1732-1771, Missa aulica.

Performed by the Salzburg Cathedral Choir.
Also present is the American guest choir Canta Viva.

Soprano: Goa Assadrian
Alto: Bernadette Furch
Tenor: Virgil Hartinger
Bass: Christoph Schoefmann
and the Orchestra of the Salzburg Cathedral.
At the organ: Heribert Metzger. Musical direction: Janos Czifra.

The Missa aulica (Court mass) is a missa brevis in C major composed by František Xaver Brixi. The work is a setting of the Latin mass for SATB soloists and choir, trumpets, timpani, violins, organ and continuo.

Franz Xaver Brixi became Regens chori (choir director) of Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral in 1759 at age 27 and held the position unto his death in 1771. He was a prolific composer of music for the liturgy, who wrote more than 100 masses, vespers and motets, among others. He also composed secular music such as oratorios and incidental music, concertos and symphonies.

He composed the Missa brevis in C, a setting of the Latin order of Mass, for SATB soloists and choir, 2 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, organ and continuo. The duration is given as 25 minutes. Karlheinz Ostermann, the editor of the first edition notes its "cantilena" solo melodies, simple themes for the choir, short fugal passages, and its optimistic mood.

Some sources have the name as Missa aulica (Court mass), which is also applied to Mozart's Missa solemnis in C, K. 337.

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