Easy "Concerted" Masses?
  • Heath
    Posts: 966
    Friends, a wedding couple next month has asked to do a "Mozart Mass" for the ceremony. Rehearsal time will be quite limited . . . any suggestions for easy "concerted" Masses, Mozart or otherwise? I should have an outstanding organist, a fine string quartet, and some solid (though not professional) singers.
  • JaredOstermann
    Posts: 488
    The Joseph Haydn "Little Organ Mass" is pretty, easy, and dresses up nicely with a string quartet. It's on cpdl, and there is even an "un-telescoped" version of the Gloria (by Michael Haydn I think) if you want to escape the mad textual chaos of the original. The Benedictus solo is also gorgeous if you have a good soprano soloist. I actually did movements of this setting for a wedding last summer.
  • Mark P.
    Posts: 248
    It's probably too late but I recommend Johann Ernst Eberlin's Missa in C (Brevissima). He was a predecessor of Mozart at the cathedral in Salzburg. See http://www.stretta-music.com/en/eberlin-missa-in-c-brevissima-no-281889.html. Also recommended is the Missa sexti toni by the same composer. See http://www.free-scores.com/boutique/boutique-uk-frame-eur.php?clef=490764. There are video examples of the Missa in C available on YouTube.
  • Heath
    Posts: 966
    Thanks, Mark. I'm trying to talk them into Schubert's "German Mass" (adapted by R. Proulx (GIA), but I'll consider these two if they balk at my suggestion.
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