Solemn Vespers, K. 339: “Laudate Dominum”

Composer: MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, for orchestra, choir and SATB soloists, was first performed in Salzburg in 1780.1
  • Mozart wrote this Vespers setting in 1779 when he had just been appointed Court Organist for Archbishop Colloredo.2
    • Mozart’s father had been the Archbishop’s deputy Kapellmeister and Mozart had once been the court concertmaster.
    • As Court Organist, Mozart was expected to play the organ at the Archbishop’s Cathedral, court and chapel, to teach the choirboys and to compose music for the cathedral.
  • This selection is an arrangement of the fifth movement of the Vespers, originally scored for soprano solo with choir.3

Sources

  1. Cliff Eisen, and Stanley Sadie, “Mozart, (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278233. 
  2. Ibid.
  3. “Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus),” IMSLP, accessed November 27, 2019, https://imslp.org/wiki/Vesperae_solennes_de_confessore%2C_K.339_(Mozart%2C_Wolfgang_Amadeus). 

Cut IDs

45618