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to equate these necessarily with the five singers depicted in the engraving. The score, which
was eventually employed as a “conducting score,” is undated but probably originated in the
1780s at the latest. 46
As the cathedral in the capital of the Erbländen, St. Stephen’s was the venue for a
number of events associated with the Imperial court. In October 1789, a Te Deum was
celebrated for the relief of Belgrade in the presence of Joseph II. 47 On 6 April 1790, the
Erbhuldigung (oath of allegiance) ceremony of the Austrian lands was celebrated in Leopold
II’s presence, and two thanksgiving services for his coronation were held on 20 October and
21 November 1790. 48 As all these events took place in the presence of the court, the
Hofkapelle, not the St. Stephen’s Kapelle, was responsible for the music, 49 although there was
a substantial overlap between the membership of both ensembles. In most cases it is
impossible to identify the music performed, but we do possess a small amount of
information about the requiem mass held at St. Stephen’s on 29 November 1790,
commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of Maria Theresia. Count Zinzendorf,
best known for his comments on Viennese operatic life, noted the event in his diary:
29.Novembre: Dix ans ecoulés depuis la mort de Marie Therese...A 10 h 1/2 a la Messe des morts.
Elle dure autant que cinq messes basses. Musique de Reiter. 50
46 One watermark design in the score is three moons over REAL | PS under a canopy. The score transmits what
was probably the original instrumentation, and does not reflect the expanded scoring with four trumpets and
timpani shown in the parts.
47 A-Whh, Zeremonialakten, Protokoll 37, f. 133v-135r.
48 See the discussion in the previous chapter. Several pamphlets were issued to commemorate these occasions.
See, for example, Anon., Feierlicher Zug Bey der Huldigung Sr. Majestät Leopold II: So Gehalten den 6ten April
1790 (Vienna: Eder, 1790), Johann Christoph Regelsberger, Beschreibung der Ehrenpforte, Welche Bei
Gelegenheit, als S.M. Leopold II. Erwählter Römischer Kaiser den 20. Nov. 1790 in die Residenzstadt den
Feyerlichen Einzug Hielt (Vienna: Schmidbauer, 1791). For facsimiles of an engraving depicting the
Erbhuldigung and the St. Stephen’s Kirchenordnung for 1790, see the catalogue 850 Jahre St. Stephan: Symbol
und Mitte in Wien 1147-1997, 277-78. See also Karl Pfannhauser, “Mozarts 'Krönungsmesse',” Mitteilungen
der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum 11, no. 3-4 (1963): 7.
49 Karl Pfannhauser, “Mozarts Kirchenmusikalische Studien im Spiegel seiner Zeit und Nachwelt,”
Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 43 (1959): 27n137.
50 Quoted in Dorothea Link, The National Court Theatre in Mozart's Vienna: Sources and Documents, 1783-
1792 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), 366.
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