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their music, although it is possible that the group of five behind them and those further back
were also involved; see Figure 4.8. 43
Figure 4.8. Detail of 1782 engraving, showing singers at St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
The St. Stephen’s inventory prepared under Gansbacher shows no sign of the Reutter
mass. However, both a score and a set of parts for it survive in the Hofkapelle collection that
may well have been associated with this performance. 44 The parts are dated 1765, but they
were subject to later modification and addition by Perschl and others and were in use as late
as 1884. 45 As it happens, there are five copies of each vocal part, although it would be unwise
43 A watercolour painting by Wenzel Staul, based on the engraving and dated August 1789 depicts the figures
holding what is clearly music, not the blank paper of Schütz’s depiction. For a facsimile see 850 Jahre St.
Stephan: Symbol und Mitte in Wien 1147-1997, (Vienna: Museen der Stadt Wien, 1997), 275.
44 The score is A-Wn, HK 1895, and the parts are A-Wn, HK 1256.
45 One copy of the Violino Primo part contains “graffiti” noting the death of Wagner on 13 February 1883.
Many of the outer bifolia in these parts were removed in the nineteenth century and replaced by new copies
prepared by Perschl and two other copyists, perhaps because the originals had become damaged.
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