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

Figure 5.14. Entry in the St. Michael’s Liber applicationis showing mass for Mozart. MiKA, IV-P 43 u 15.
Another source, providing much more detail, is the “Funeral-Specification für das Löbl:
Collegium zu St: Michael in Wien” for December 1791. 162 Such lists were prepared
monthly, and always follow the same format: firstly, a list of the funerals that took place that
month, including an indication of their class and cost, followed by a list of other types of
services such as obsequies and anniversaries, accompanied by the same information. Only
services of the first class (and occasionally, the second class) have an itemisation of the
individual costs for bell-ringing, clothes and other provisions. Mozart, naturally, does not
appear in the list of funerals, but does appear as the sole recipient of that month’s obsequies
in the second part of the document. 163 There is no indication of which clergy officiated at the
service, but the Pfarrer Don Augustin Striech and the Kooperatoren Ferdinand Krasel,
162 MiKA, XIV.164.2.
163 Facsimile in Brauneis, “Exequien für Mozart,” 8. A transcription is in Eisen, Neue Dokumente, 74.
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