MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791). Autograph music manuscript, Zwei deutsche Kirchenlieder , K.343 (336c), n.p., n.d. [Prague, January/February 1787].
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791). Autograph music manuscript, Zwei deutsche Kirchenlieder , K.343 (336c), n.p., n.d. [Prague, January/February 1787]. COMPLETE, the two songs, 'O Gottes Lamm' and 'Als aus Aegypten', notated for voice and figured bass, the text (of the opening stanzas only in each case) added interlineally in Mozart’s hand, 31 + 33 bars on four systems of two staves in brown ink on 14-stave paper, one leaf, 232 x 315mm (traces of mount, minor loss and short tear, approx. 20mm, to upper left corner). Provenance : evidently amongst the great mass of manuscripts purchased from Constanze Mozart in 1799 by Johann Anton Andre (1775-1842, his numbering 'N.58' to upper left and '178' to upper right); examined by Ludwig von Köchel in July 1860 when in the possession of his son Johann August André (1817-1887); cancellation marks and authentification at lower margin by Julius André (1808-1880), no doubt occasioned by the sale of the manuscript, Offenbach, 22 July 1863, ‘Ich bezeuge hierdurch, daß obige Noten u. Worte eigenhändigt von W.A. Mozart geschrieben sind’ -- sale by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud, 24 November 1999, lot 44, FrF 580,000 – private collection. These solemn and deceptively simple church songs were composed during Mozart’s stay in Prague early in 1787 to attend the immensely successful run of The Marriage of Figaro there – his visit, which was sponsored by local music lovers, began on 11 January and he conducted the opera on the 22nd, staying until the middle of the following month. It has been surmised that the present songs were commissioned by the conductor of the Figaro performances, Josef Strobach, in his secondary capacity as choirmaster at the church of St Niklas auf der Kleinseite. Mozart refers glancingly to at least one of his Kirchenlieder in a letter to Gottfried von Jacquin in May 1787, and they were first published in the following year in the second edition of the Prague church songbook ( Lieder zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Andacht ). The introduction to the 5th edition of the same work in 1805 provides some background, indicating that the two songs were used for commemorations of the dead -- a purpose for which their solemn, devout character makes them eminently suited. The authors of the texts are unknown; the first, ‘O Gottes Lamm’, was traditionally sung after the Agnus Dei in mass settings, whilst the second, ‘Als aus Aegypten’, a metric translation of psalm 113, was a text usually sung during the service of Vespers.
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791). Autograph music manuscript, Zwei deutsche Kirchenlieder , K.343 (336c), n.p., n.d. [Prague, January/February 1787].
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791). Autograph music manuscript, Zwei deutsche Kirchenlieder , K.343 (336c), n.p., n.d. [Prague, January/February 1787]. COMPLETE, the two songs, 'O Gottes Lamm' and 'Als aus Aegypten', notated for voice and figured bass, the text (of the opening stanzas only in each case) added interlineally in Mozart’s hand, 31 + 33 bars on four systems of two staves in brown ink on 14-stave paper, one leaf, 232 x 315mm (traces of mount, minor loss and short tear, approx. 20mm, to upper left corner). Provenance : evidently amongst the great mass of manuscripts purchased from Constanze Mozart in 1799 by Johann Anton Andre (1775-1842, his numbering 'N.58' to upper left and '178' to upper right); examined by Ludwig von Köchel in July 1860 when in the possession of his son Johann August André (1817-1887); cancellation marks and authentification at lower margin by Julius André (1808-1880), no doubt occasioned by the sale of the manuscript, Offenbach, 22 July 1863, ‘Ich bezeuge hierdurch, daß obige Noten u. Worte eigenhändigt von W.A. Mozart geschrieben sind’ -- sale by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud, 24 November 1999, lot 44, FrF 580,000 – private collection. These solemn and deceptively simple church songs were composed during Mozart’s stay in Prague early in 1787 to attend the immensely successful run of The Marriage of Figaro there – his visit, which was sponsored by local music lovers, began on 11 January and he conducted the opera on the 22nd, staying until the middle of the following month. It has been surmised that the present songs were commissioned by the conductor of the Figaro performances, Josef Strobach, in his secondary capacity as choirmaster at the church of St Niklas auf der Kleinseite. Mozart refers glancingly to at least one of his Kirchenlieder in a letter to Gottfried von Jacquin in May 1787, and they were first published in the following year in the second edition of the Prague church songbook ( Lieder zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Andacht ). The introduction to the 5th edition of the same work in 1805 provides some background, indicating that the two songs were used for commemorations of the dead -- a purpose for which their solemn, devout character makes them eminently suited. The authors of the texts are unknown; the first, ‘O Gottes Lamm’, was traditionally sung after the Agnus Dei in mass settings, whilst the second, ‘Als aus Aegypten’, a metric translation of psalm 113, was a text usually sung during the service of Vespers.
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