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performance of the mass ordinary and additional items such as the offertory, gradual and<br />

motet. Many of the smaller and private chapels in the city did close, but the music-making<br />

there was invariably small-scale and of little interest to a composer like Mozart. The closure<br />

of the former chapel in the Trattnerhof was actually of benefit to Mozart: converted into a<br />

hall, it served as the venue for the composer’s three subscription concerts of 1784. 12<br />

Clearly, a more nuanced approach to the problem of church music in 1780s Vienna<br />

is required, and an explanation of the post-1783 framework in which the music was heard is<br />

neccessary. The Gottesdienstordnung in its original form stayed in force in Vienna until 17<strong>91</strong>,<br />

when Leopold II permitted a modest relaxation of its strictures. Outside Vienna, the policy<br />

initially varied according to the political orientation of the authorities, but in 1786 all of the<br />

Erbländen were ordered to adopt a service pattern closely based on the Viennese model. 13<br />

Churches were required to purchase the new service order and hymn texts, and a market<br />

sprang up for supplying these in various formats. In late 1783, an advertisement in the<br />

Wiener Zeitung announced the availability of the local editions:<br />

Im deutschen Zeitungskomtoir in der Singerstrasse Nr. 931 ist zu haben:<br />

Directorium Romano Viennense, seu Ordo Missas celebrandi, & horas canonicas recitandi, juxta<br />

Ritum Missalis & Brevarii Romani, ac Proprii Viennensis, adjunctis etiam Festis ex Proprio<br />

Passaviensi. Pro Anno Domini 1784. 17 kr...<br />

Neue Gottesdiensts- und Andachtsordnung für Wien in und vor der Stadt.<br />

Normalmeßgesang, Litaneyen, und Gebether, wie selbe bey der neuen Gottesdiensteinrichtung<br />

zu allgemein Gebrauch vorgeschrieben worden.<br />

– Beyde in verschiedenen Bänden und Preisen.<br />

Ordnung und Lieder zusammen gebunden, mit und ohne Noten in allerley Einband.<br />

Noten zum Meßgesange besonders.<br />

Normalmeßgesang samt Predigtlied, 1 kr.<br />

Normalmeßgesang besonders, 1 kr.<br />

Normalmeßgesang samt Predigtlied mit Litaney und Gebeter im grössern Druck. 14<br />

12 Deutsch, Dokumente, 197.<br />

13 See RGZJ, 150-68.<br />

14 Wiener Zeitung (1783): Nr. 101.<br />

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