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

Musikfreunde, was witnessed by Salieri. 107 An undated letter to Salieri survives in which
Süssmayr entrusted to the Hofkapellmeister his “creatura catholica,” with instructions on how
the copyist should prepare it. 108 This “creatura catholica” was very likely the Missa in D,
SmWV 106, a copy of which was sold to the Hofkapelle by Maria Anna Süssmayr after the
death of her brother in September 1803. The transaction, in which Maria Anna received
100fl, was authorised by Salieri in November of that year, perhaps on compassionate
grounds. 109
III. THE EXEQUIEN FOR MOZART
Soon after Mozart’s death, the composer had memorials of various kinds composed and
performed for him all over Europe, of which the most elaborate and well-attended was a
requiem mass held in Prague on 14 December 1791, with music by Antonio Rossetti. 110
107 Süssmayr made a second will three weeks later, but it is unfortunately lost; see Michael Lorenz, “Süssmayr
und die Lichterputzer: Von Gefundenen und Erfundenen Quellen,” in Mozart-Jahrbuch 2006 (Kassel:
Bärenreiter, forthcoming). On 20 August 1802, Süssmayr wrote a letter to Salieri from Kremsmünster, the
location of which is now unknown; see Pfannhauser, “Auf den Spuren der Mozart-Überlieferung in
Oberösterreich,” 26.
108 Winterberger, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, 109; Angermüller, Dokumente, ii.389-90.
109 Winterberger, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, 162. The relevant document, from the Obersthofmeisteramt to the
Musikgraf Kufstein reads: “Zu dem Ankauf der von dem verstorbenen Musickkompositor Süssmayer
hinterlassenen Messe für das Hofkapellen=Archiv wird auf die Bestättigung, daß dieses Werk allen Beÿfall
verdienet, hiemit die Bewilligung ertheilt, und ist der dafür bestimmte Betrag von 100 f in den gewöhnlichen
Hofkapellausgaben in Aufrechnung zu bringen, um solchen untereinem zahlbar ausweisen zu können.” A-
Whh, HMK, Karton 4, f. 190r. I am grateful to Michael Lorenz for transcribing this entry. The autograph of
the mass is lost, although a single autograph page with additional brass parts does survive in A-Wgm. The
Hofkapelle’s parts for the mass, A-Wn, HK 2347, are probably the earliest surviving source. An early score copy,
from the collection of Archduke Rudolph, is in A-Wgm, I 1629/Q 442. Theophil Antonicek incorrectly claims
that the printed edition of 1811 is the earliest source; “Franz Xaver Süßmayr, Missa solemnis in D,”
, accessed 21 November 2006.
110 See Sterling E. Murray, “A Requiem for Mozart,” in Mozart-Jahrbuch 1991, Bericht über den Internationalen
Mozart-Kongreß Salzburg 1991 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1992), 145-54. The Rosetti Requiem had already been
used in the same location and with a number of the same performers for the funeral of Graf von Wieschnik,
president of the k. k. Appellazionsgericht in September 1789; see Jiří Berkovec, Musicalia V Pražském
Periodickém Tisku 18. Století: Výběr Aktuálních Zpráv O Hudbě, vol. 6, Varia De Musica (Prague: Státní
knihovna ČSR, 1989), 71.
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