In the Gloria and the Credo, Mozart eschews the traditional concluding fugues. Despite being a missa brevis, the Agnus Dei is very long and there is "a prolonged setting for soloists and choir of 'Dona nobis pacem', ending piano." The Dona nobis is set as a gavotte, "like a vaudeville and has been compared with the specimen of this genre at the end of Die Entführung."
Date of composition | 1777 (September) |
Type | Mass |
Tonality | B-flat Major |
Catalogue | KV 275/272b |
Autotranslations beta |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Brevis en si bémol majeur, KV 275/272b Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Brevis in si bemolle maggiore, KV 275/272b Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Missa Brevis B-dur, KV 275/272b |