Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Missa brevis in Bb major K. 275 (272b)

Mozart wrote the Missa brevis in B flat major K. 275 in 1777. In keeping with the tradition of the genre, the movements are sh Ort and succinct. Mozart sometimes even further compresses the work by having different Textual passages sung simultaneously. The orchestral scoring is also accordingly concentrated. Alfred Einstein described the expressive content of the mass as “intimate, lyrical, almost private” and characterized it on the other hand as “a work full of delicacy and conspicuous polyphony and, above all, of chromatic agitation and boldness. ”The autograph of the work is no longer extant. Franz Beyer’s Ur Text edition is based on one of the most imp Ortant sources of this work. “Mozarts ‘Missa brevis in B’ liegt bei Breitkopf in der übersichtlichen Partitur in der Ausgabe von Franz Beyer vor. ” (RB, Musica Sacra) “Dieses populäre Werk ist bei Breitkopf nun in zuverlässigem und praxisorientiertem Material erhältlich. ” (Christian-Markus Raiser, Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik)