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combining: on 31 August 1782, the double celebration of the 1200 th anniversary of the
diocese and the 50 th anniversary of Abbot Beda’s entry into St. Peter’s was commemorated
with Michael Haydn’s Applausus MH 323, performed by members of both groups. 129
Although there were political implications for the Hofkapelle in performing a work by a
rebellious former colleague like Mozart, there were close ties between St. Peter’s and the
court, and the Archbishop attended services there on a number of occasions. As the St.
Peter’s ensemble numbered about 20 musicians in total as of 1783, extra players were
certainly needed if the demands of the C minor Mass were to be met. 130
26 October was the feast of St. Amandus, Bishop of Worms. Amandus, whose relics
were brought to Salzburg by St. Rupert, founder of St. Peter’s Abbey, is frequently confused
with another St. Amandus, Bishop of Maastricht. 131 The celebration of the feast was limited
to Salzburg, and occurred simultaneously with the more generally celebrated feast of St.
Evaristus. A number of Salzburg composers wrote works in honour of the saint: Michael
Haydn, for example, wrote a Missa Sancti Amandi MH 229 in 1776. The 1783 Salzburg
Propriae sanctorum prescribes for 26 October:
Translatio S. AMANDI Episcopi & Confessoris. Duplex.
Missa. Sacerdotes tui. ut in comm. Conf. Pontif.
129 Gerhard Croll, “Die Mozarts, Johann Michael Haydn und das Stift St. Peter,” in St. Peter in Salzburg: das
Älteste Kloster im Deutschen Sprachraum, ed. Heinz Dopsch and Roswitha Juffinger (Salzburg: Salzburger
Landesregierung, 1982), 150-51.
130 See Petrus Eder, “Die Sankt-Petrischen Musikanten,” in Das Benediktinerstift St. Peter in Salzburg zur Zeit
Mozarts, ed. Petrus Eder and Gerhard Walterskirchen (Salzburg: Verlag St. Peter, 1991), 98, 118-19. The list
of the ensemble as it stood in 1781 (118) omits the two Altists, Joseph and Kajetan Russegger. It is possible that
a number of the Choral singers also took part (see Ibid., 106), though certainly not in the numbers proposed in
Zaslaw, “Mozart's Salzburg Sacred Music,” 579. A not entirely reliable collection of data on the musicians is
Rudolph Angermüller, “Musiker der Erzabtei St. Peter, Salzburg, von 1586 bis 1922,” Mitteilungen der
Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum 31 (1983): 61-102. On the organists, see Petrus Eder and Gudrun Nöchel,
“Sanktpetrische Organisten von 1743 bis 1815,” Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum 49, no.
3/4 (2001): 53-66.
131 See, for example, NMA I/1/1/v, x; Robert Levin, “A New Completion of Mozart's Mass in C Minor, K.
427/417 a ,” in Mozart-Jahrbuch 2005 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2006), 240n2.
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