Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Missa solemnis in C minor K. 139 (47a)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the present Missa solemnis in C minor K. 139 (47a) in the fall of 1768 in Vienna, where the “Waisenhaus” church on the Rennweg was consecrated on 7 December 1768. Together with the Missa brevis in G K. 49 (47d) – written at about the same time – the work is one of the first Mass settings of the then 12-year-old composer. The first editions of both Masses were published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1877 within the Complete Edition “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Werke. ”