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certainly could have acted as models for the kind of copies obtained by the Michaelerkirche in<br />

17<strong>91</strong>. Johann Traeg had Misericordias domini by 1796, and a Viennese score copy from the<br />

1790s in the hand of Peter Rampl survives today in Graz. 268<br />

The presence of Misericordias at the Frankfurt celebrations is a reminder that such<br />

services featured not only mass settings but graduals, offertories and other pieces as well.<br />

With a few exceptions, we do not know what these additional works were. In Budapest, the<br />

all-Albrechtsberger coronation service on 6 June 1792 featured the gradual Beatus vir (B.I.6),<br />

the sequence Veni sancte spiritus (J.25) and the offertory Veritas mea (C.I.3) in addition to<br />

the Coronation Mass (A.I.3), as far as we can tell from the original materials. 269 A Te Deum<br />

was required on many occasions, and it is likely that Salieri’s “Coronation” setting featured<br />

in some of them. As the original wrapper to the parts is no longer extant, however, we do not<br />

know the exact performance dates. 270 According to Niemetschek, writing in 1798, “Man<br />

macht hier in Prag auf mehreren Kirchen-Chören einige Motetten von seiner [Mozarts]<br />

Komposition voll Erhabenheit und Feyerlichkeit.” 271 This was taken by Pfannhauser as an<br />

indication that one or more of the sacred contrafacta K. Anh. 121-23 arranged from the<br />

incidental music to Thamos were heard at the Bohemian coronations. 272 Pfannhauser singled<br />

out Splendente te, deus K. Anh. 121, a contrafactum of Thamos’ first chorus “Schon weichet<br />

dir, Sonne” as a particular possibility, since its text seems especially appropriate to a<br />

coronation service. 273 The origin of the Thamos contrafacta is a complex question that cannot<br />

268 MVC, 1173, 1179-80.<br />

269 What appear to be the original scores are bound in H-Bb, 1037; see Dorothea Schröder, Die Geistlichen<br />

Vokalkompositionen Johann Georg Albrechtsbergers, 2 vols. (Hamburg: Verlag der Musikalienhandlung K.D.<br />

Wagner, 1987), ii.9. The mass was reused for the coronation of Franz’s third wife in 1808; Ibid., i.40.<br />

270 A-Wn, HK 4<strong>91</strong>.<br />

271 Niemetschek, Lebensbeschreibung, 117.<br />

272 On these motets, see Neal Zaslaw, "Mozart's Incidental Music to 'Lanassa' and His 'Thamos' Motets," in<br />

Music, Libraries and the Academy: Essays in Honor of Lenore Coral, ed. James P. Cassaro (Middleton, WI: A-R<br />

Editions, 2007), 55-63. I am grateful to Zaslaw for providing me with a copy of this article.<br />

273 Pfannhauser, "Mozarts 'Krönungsmesse'," 9.<br />

235

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