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The ''Krönungsmesse'' (German for Coronation Mass) (Mass No. 15 in C major, K. 317; sometimes Mass No. 16), composed in 1779, is one of the most popular of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 17 extant settings of the Ordinary of the Mass. This setting, like the majority of Mozart's mass settings, is a ''Missa brevis'', or short mass (as opposed to the more formal Solemn Masses or High Masses, known as ''Missae solemnes''). ==History== The Mass in C Major was completed on March 23, 1779 in Salzburg. Mozart had just returned to the city after 18 months of fruitless job hunting in Paris and Mannheim, and his father Leopold promptly got him a job as court organist and composer at Salzburg Cathedral. The mass was almost certainly premiered there on Easter Sunday April 4, 1779. Contrary to a popular misconception, it was not intended for the church of Maria Plain near Salzburg.〔Karl Pfannhauser, "Mozarts ‘Krönungsmesse’." ''Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum'' 11, no. 3-4 (1963): 3-11〕 The KV 317 mass appears to have acquired the nickname "Coronation" at the Imperial court in Vienna in the early nineteenth century,〔Black 2007, pp. 198-243.〕 after becoming the preferred music for royal and imperial coronations as well as services of Thanksgiving. Whether it was performed at the coronations of Leopold II in 1790 and Francis II in 1792, as some sources assume, is unlikely. Musical allusions to this Mass appear in the Symphony 98 and the Harmoniemesse of Mozart's contemporary, Joseph Haydn.〔Heartz 2009, p. 662〕 It was famously performed in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City on 29 June 1985, with Pope John Paul II leading the proceedings, and Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coronation Mass (Mozart)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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