Mozart in Stainz

Mozart: Missa longa in C major, K 262
Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, K 243

Location: Pfarrkirche Stainz

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Mozart created his most beautiful pieces of sacred music during those quiet early years in Salzburg with his family, before he left for Mannheim and Paris. The great Salzburg litanies and masses reflect a time of happiness. Strangely, Mozart’s “Missa Longa”, K. 262, was never as popular as his “Credo Mass” and “Sparrow Mass”, themselves both world-renowned church pieces. Nonetheless, before his “Great Mass in c minor”, the “Missa Longa” was Mozart’s most intense reflection on the Holy Mass.

The “Missa Longa’s” practically mystical choral movements and highly virtuoso arias fill Stainz’s church just as they once did Salzburg’s baroque churches. Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Mozart interpretation is not just authentic in its replication of the original sounds, but also in the relaying of the maestro’s messages and in the long-standing cooperation with his “Mozart family”, namely with the Concentus Musicus Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor.

Before the concerts:
Schilcher reception in Stainz’s Schlosshof

We are offering a shuttle bus service to this concert. The price is EUR 10,- per person; the bus leaves at 7 p.m. in front of the Opera House Graz (Franz-Graf-Allee); return journey after the concert. Please make a reservation!