Classical Classics
11 January 2021
We return for our third full term at Home Choir via
Zoom work on a programme of music by Haydn, Mozart, and their
contemporaries, as the basis for a future concert programme. We had
anticipated, before the advent of Covid-19, to be working through a
series of Great Oratorios in 2021, and this term we should have been
singing Haydn’s The Creation. Sadly, this was not to be, but our
ever-prepared MD has put together a fascinating sequence of music
which honours the choruses of The Creation and puts them into
context.
Luigi Gatti (1740-1817)
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J. M. Haydn (1736-1806)
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F. J. Haydn (1732-1809)
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W. A. Mozart (1756-91)
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The major work in the programme is Gatti’s Schöpfungsmesse
(Creation Mass) in which the composer sensitively adapts entire
movements from The Creation to the liturgical text of the Mass.
Mozart and Haydn are represented in two other famous Latin texts,
the Magnificat and Te Deum respectively, as well as Haydn’s dramatic
motet, Insanæ et vanæ curæ (which has nothing to do with Insane and
vain curates!). The famous Haydn’s (Franz Joseph) brother (Johann
Michael) is also represented in his beautiful Nunc dimittis.
Mag Dr Eva Neumayr
Over the term we will have full rehearsals, sectional rehearsals,
and we welcome guests to our Fridays at Four expert sessions
including Mag. Dr Eva Neumayr, archivist at the Mozarteum Salzburg
in Austria, and custodian of the music archive for the Archdiocese
of Salzburg.
• Schöpfungsmesse - Luigi Gatti (1740-1817) after F. J. Haydn
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Insanæ et vanæ curæ - F. J. Haydn (1732-1809)
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Magnificat, K. 193 - W. A. Mozart (1756-91)
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Nunc dimittis, M. 355 - J. M Haydn (1737-1806)
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Te Deum in C “Marie Therese" - F. J. Haydn (1732-1809)
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