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and other material. 222 Among the non-autograph sources was a late eighteenth-century score
of the gradual Sancta Maria, Mater Dei K. 273. The score, on Italian paper, bears the remark
“pro me/Giuseppe Schellhammer mpria/Organist zu Leoben.” 223 Bischoff himself later
added: “Aus dem Nachlaß Stoll’s in Baden” and “Schellhammer Stoll’s Gehilf hat dieses u.
andere Mss. von Stoll überkommen.” If Bischoff’s remarks are correct, it is conceivable that
Mozart had something to do with Stoll’s possession of a score for K. 273. 224 The question of
the precise provenance of this manuscript awaits further investigation.
V. “MIT EINER KERZE IN DER HAND”
On Sunday, 25 June 1791, Mozart wrote to Constanze, “Morgen werde ich mit einer kerze
in der Hand in der Joseph Stadt mit der Proceßion gehen!” 225 This observance, which began
and ended at the church of Maria Treu, was in honour of Corpus Christi, a feast that fell the
previous Thursday. On his 1772 visit to Vienna, Burney was informed by an Italian that
“the Austrians were extremely addicted to processions,” and he himself noted that “not a day
passed while I remained in this city, without one or more to some church or convent.” 226
Processions were curtailed and regulated under the 1783 Gottesdienstordnung, but even here
the designers of the order retained them on Corpus Christi and its octave. 227 Every year on
222 Hellmut Federhofer, “Mozartiana im Musikaliennachlass von Ferdinand Bischoff,” in Mozart-Jahrbuch
1965/66 (Salzburg: 1967), 15-38. Federhofer subsequently disposed of a number of the autographs; the early
trio for three unnamed instruments K. deest, for example, is now in A-Wn, Mus. Hs. 41986. I do not know if
the manuscript discussed here is still in Federhofer’s possession.
223 Ibid., 33. Federhofer lists the watermarks as “drei Halbmonden,” which is almost certainly an incomplete
description.
224 No source for K. 273 is found in the Baden collection at A-Wn.
225 MBA, iv.142.
226 Burney, An Eighteenth-Century Musical Tour in Central Europe and the Netherlands, 105.
227 The Gottesdienstordnung reads: “In den Vorstädtpfarren aber wird am Sonntag innerhalb der Fronleichnams
Oktav Vormittag die Fronleichnamsprozession nach folgender Eintheilung geführt:...Von der Pfarr der
Piaristen in der Josephstadt, mit welcher die Pfarr der Trinitarier zu gehen hat.” RGZJ, 553. The revised order
for Niederösterreich of 1786 included a general prohibition on Corpus Christi processions outside the feastday
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