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

additional musicians (Extrani) to play at some of these events, at a cost of 30fl 51xr in the
year 1 April 1786 to 31 March 1787. 167 Spangler also received regular payments from the
Barnabite foundation of St. Michael’s on behalf of the ensemble; Figure 5.15 shows a receipt
by Spangler for such a payment dated 11 December 1791, the day after Mozart’s obsequies
took place. 168 This payment is one of two received by the musicians in December 1791, as
the account book shows; see Figure 5.16a. A further entry in the account book, which seems
to be previously unknown to Mozart research, records the payment of 12fl 9xr “p[ro]
Sac[ra?] Cant[ione?] de Requiem et pulsu camp[anarum] in Exequiis Wolffgangi Mozart, ut
n[umero] 1.”; see Figure 5.16b. 169 That this entry appears here is hardly surprising: the
reference to “numero 1” shows that the scribe was copying his information from the
“Funeral-Specification” we have discussed above.
Although we may be sure that some kind of music was performed at the service, none
of the St. Michael’s documentation mentions what that music may have been. Of the four
known newspaper reports of the service, only two mention a performance of Mozart’s
Requiem. A number of scholars have however attempted to strengthen the Requiem
connection by citing two sources that derive ultimately from Süssmayr’s Nachlass. 170 The first
is a mysterious bifolium in the hand of Süssmayr, now in Budapest; see Figure 5.17. 171 This
bifolium contains an organ arrangement of what is said to be the Introit, beginning at Te
decet hymnus, as well as the complete Kyrie, although most of the fugal entries actually follow
167 MiKA, XVI.191.1.
168 MiKA, XIV.164.2. Spangler was also receiving payments from the court theatre about this time, as the
Burgtheater’s weekly ledger reveals.
169 MiKA, XVI.205.8.
170 SmWV, 8-9. The suggestion originates in Brauneis, “Exequien für Mozart,” 10.
171 H-Bn, Ms. Mus. IV.52. See Istvan Kecskemeti, “Beiträge zur Geschichte von Mozarts Requiem,” Studia
Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 1 (1961): 147-53.
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