Mozart: Missa in C Minor, K. 139 (arr. for soloists, choir and organ)
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Instrumentation: Organ, SATB Choir Work: Mozart: Missa in C Minor (arr. for soloists, chorus and organ), K. 139 (47a) Binding: Work Language: Latin ISMN: 9790006527953 Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches Pages: 99 Description This Mozart Mass has been arranged for solo voices, chorus and organ from the Urtext of the "New Mozart Edition", thereby making it accessible in all their beauty to choruses and church choirs with limited financial means at their disposal. Martin Focke has based the " concertante " organ parts on the orchestral writing, doing full justice to the timbre of the original. The solo parts and choruses, of course, leave the Urtext of the "New Mozart Edition" entirely untouched. Mozart had barely turned twelve when he composed and conducted his Missa solemnis in C minor, K. 139, to inaugurate a new orphanage on Vienna 's Rennweg in 1768. This astonishing early work adheres to the form of a Neapolitan cantata mass, in