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Podcast: Classical Music Discoveries
Episode: 13140 Mozart: Mass in C Major, K. 167
Description: Mozart’s “Mass in C Major, K. 167” or the “Mass in Honor of the Most Holy Trinity” was commissioned by Archbishop Colloredo in June of 1773 for Trinity Sunday.
The Mass was performed in Salzburg’s Trinity Church in the same month of commission.
This Mass is noteworthy in that this is Mozart’s only wholly choral mass, which excludes all solo vocalists. This may have been done by the request of Archbishop Colloredo in order to obtain brevity to coincide with Colloredo’s new directives for shorter church ceremonies.
The Mass consists of 6 movements: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Benedictus and is scored fo...