MOZART AND THE PRACTICE OF SACRED MUSIC, 1781-91 a ...

1823, when its archivist Joseph Frühwald noted a performance of K. 337, not K. 317, under
that title. 280 Pfannhauser stated that K. 337 increasingly acquired the name “Missa Aulica” in
the nineteenth century, but did not cite any examples. 281 I know of three sources for K. 337
bearing the title “aulica,” a nomenclature that does of course imply usage at court but
nothing specific about coronations. Many other sources for eighteenth-century masses bear
the same title. 282
The earliest source of which I am aware that associates K. 317 with a coronation is an
incomplete set of parts for the mass deriving ultimately from Eger Basilica in northern
Hungary. 283 The title page, which is smaller than the parts, is signed “A Wild[mpa] 1808”,
and underneath the principal title are the words “pro coronatione Regis”; see Figure 3.30. 284
As it happens, Franz’s third wife Maria Ludovika was crowned Queen of Hungary on 7
September 1808. The coronation mass was by Albrechtsberger, and the Eger title has the
masculine regis, so there is unlikely to be a direct connection. The coronation was however
preceded on 3 September by an Erbhuldigung for Franz for which the music is unknown.
Two further manuscripts of the Krönungsmesse, both late and both problematic, also
allude to an Imperial coronation. A set of parts for K. 317 of unknown origin but dating
from around 1830 benefits from a particularly elaborate title page featuring a drawing of the
double-headed Austrian eagle; see Figure 3.31. 285 The title states that this is a mass “Zur
280 Pfannhauser, “Mozarts 'Krönungsmesse',” 6. The reference appears in the ensemble’s list of performances
from 1820-53; A-Wn, INV. I/Hofmusikkapelle 16.
281 Ibid.: 7.
282 Performance material for masses by Brixi, Novotny, Hofmann, Kaintz, Vogl and Danzi all bear this title,
particularly in Czech sources.
283 A-Wn, Fonds 152 Zehetgruber 44. Only the Canto, Alto, Tenore and Basso survive. The ÖNB bought the
set in 2003 from the estate of the Austrian opera producer Josef Zehetgruber (1935-2001). Some of
Zehetgruber’s estate went to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, and I am grateful to Otto Biba for providing
me with a copy of the auction catalogue.
284 It is not certain that these words are contemporaneous with the main text.
285 A-Wn, Mus. Hs. 37341. The set is part of a collection of church music apparently acquired by the ÖNB at
the same time (Mus. Hs. 37339-37361). Many of the parts, including those for K. 317, bear the name “Soldat”
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