Dack (2009) suggests that Haydn originally composed the work when he was still a teenaged chorister at St. Stephen's Cathedral, singing under the direction of Georg Reutter. In its original form, the mass was scored for fairly rudimentary forces: two violin parts, continuo, a four-part chorus, and solo parts for two trebles. When the young Haydn, newly unemployed after being dismissed from the choir at St. Stephen's, made a pilgrimage to Mariazell, the Missa brevis was one of the works he showed the music director there.
Date of composition | 1750 |
Type | Mass |
Tonality | F Major |
Catalogue | Hob. XXII:1 |
Instruments |
Chorus/Choir
Continuo 2x Violin |
Autotranslations beta |
Joseph Haydn: Mass n°2 en fa majeur, Hob. XXII:1 "Missa brevis" Franz Joseph Haydn: Mass n. 2 in fa maggiore, Hob. XXII:1 "Missa brevis" Joseph Haydn: Mass Nr. 2 F-dur, Hob. XXII:1 "Missa brevis" |