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Süssmayr scores from 1793-94 respectively. This may suggest that the trumpets and timpani<br />

were a later addition. 211 A second set of parts, for a Regina coeli, are on lower-quality “local”<br />

paper but were produced by the same copyist as the offertory. Their general appearance and<br />

the stylistic conservatism of the music make it likely that they were also copied in the 1780s<br />

or early 1790s. The Regina coeli boasts an elaborate organ obbligato part presumably written<br />

for Henneberg or his father to play.<br />

Later in life, Henneberg was organist at the Piaristenkirche, Kapellmeister at the<br />

Kirche am Hof and k. k. Hoforganist. A number of Mozart manuscripts in the hand of<br />

Henneberg testify to his continuing interest and promotion of Mozart’s music. The archives<br />

of the Piaristenkirche and St. Peter contain short scores of K. 140, 317, 337 and the spurious<br />

K. Anh. C 1.08, apparently copied by Henneberg for his use at the organ and perhaps also<br />

while directing. 212 As we have seen in Chapter Three, the Hofkapelle’s score copies of K. 337<br />

and K. 258 contain alterations in Henneberg’s hand, and the score of K. 258 contain<br />

additional oboe and trombone parts. 213 A score of K. 275 at the Kirche am Hof contains<br />

further additional woodwind parts by Henneberg. 214<br />

Given the Schikaneder connection to the service and the fact that Mozart was<br />

moving in theatrical circles at the time of his death, it is surprising that the Theater auf der<br />

Wieden company has not so far come into contention for authorship of the string and<br />

woodwind parts in the Kyrie of the Requiem. If it could be shown that a member of the<br />

211 The Schottenstift also possesses a later set of parts for Ad te domine levavi, B3/170, with performance dates<br />

from 1818 to 1850.<br />

212 The sources in A-Wp for K. 140, 337 and K. Anh. C 1.08 were mentioned in Otto Biba, “The Beginnings<br />

of Mozart's Presence in the Viennese Church-Music Repertory: Sources, Performance Practice, and Questions<br />

of Authenticity,” in Mozart's Choral Music: Composition, Contexts, Performance (Bloomington, IN: 11 February<br />

2006). The source for K. 317 is A-Wn, Fonds 24 St. Peter A221(III).<br />

213 A-Wn, HK 2246.<br />

214 I have not yet had the opportunity to visit the Kirche am Hof archive in person, but I have inspected a<br />

microfilm of this score in the possession of the NMA Editionsleitung in Salzburg.<br />

413

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