“It is quite true about my moral obligation and indeed I let the word flow from my pen on purpose. It seems that the work had not been commissioned but that it was written to fulfill a vow, which is vaguely discernable in the incomplete correspondence with this father, as he writes on Januin response to his father’s reproaches:
Indeed, it is astonishing that the Mass, although left as a torso, was performed at all during Mozart’s final visit to Salzburg. Finally, the transmission of the original sources also raises many questions. Peter’s Church, Salzburg, on October 26, 1783. The same applies to the reasons why it was left unfinished and to many details of its first performance, which, as far as we know, took place at St. The exact circumstances that gave rise to it as a votive mass have eluded explanation to the present day. Today it enjoys almost cult status, first because of its monumentality, which is unique in Mozart’s sacred vocal music, and second because, like the Requiem, it partakes of the aura of the unfinished and mysterious. 626) as his most remarkable church composition. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C minor (K.
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