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Unfortunately, with the near-total loss of Wanhal’s autographs it is impossible to determine<br />

the provenance of his work. 59<br />

Viennese choirmasters continued to add music both old and new to their collections<br />

in the 1780s. Most of the copying was done “in house,” but professional copyists were also<br />

contracted. The copyist Johann Schmutzer, for example, produced several sets of parts for<br />

the Augustinerkirche. 60 An advertisement in the Wiener Zeitung from 1799, discovered by<br />

Otto Biba, gives some idea of the range of sacred music that was then available in Vienna:<br />

Musikalien-Nachricht.<br />

Es sind grosse Anzahlen von Messen, Gradual. Offertor. Vespen, Psalmi, Mottet. Requiem,<br />

Litan. Stabat Mater, Missere, Simphonien, Regina cœli, Alma, Ave regina, Te Deum Laudamus,<br />

von den berühmtesten Meistern, als von Capel. Albrechtsberger, Arbesser, Arraja, Aumon, Berti,<br />

Brazner, Bredieri, Brixi, Boog, Bonno, Caldara, Campungani, Christian, Corri, Ditters de<br />

Dittersdorf, Ehrenhardt, Fillenbaum, Fini, Fux, Gallo de Venet. Galuppi, Gasmann, Giomelli,<br />

Graun, Giacomelli, Gluck, Grottendorfer, Gsur, Haidn Gius., Haidn Mich., Hosse, Hofmann,<br />

Holzpauer, Kerzelli, Leo, Luchi, Majo, Magiore, Maturo, Misliweczeck, Morr, Monterisso,<br />

Naumann, Novotni, Ordenetz, Pampani, Perez, Pergolesi, Paratti, Pirk, Reinhari, Reitter, Riepl,<br />

Roi, Sabatino, Sachini, Seuche, Shrameck, Siani, Majest. neapol. Signorilli, Schmidt, Stadler<br />

Abée, Starzer, Steffan, Stock, Thuma, Wagenseil, Wanhal, Vinci, Vingorilli, Zechner, Ziegler;<br />

einzeln, oder zusammen um den billigsten Preise zu verkaufen; nähere Auskunft giebt der<br />

Hausmeister in der Leopoldstadt gegen der Jägerzeil, von dem Theater gegenüber, im Welischen<br />

Hause Nr. 474. 61<br />

Whether speaking of its text, the enforcement of its regulations, or its effect on new<br />

composition, there has been a great deal of misunderstanding regarding the<br />

Gottesdienstordnung and its implications for Viennese sacred music. There is no doubt that it<br />

caused much short-term hardship and led to a major reconfiguration of the financial<br />

arrangements for church musicians, but the longer-term negative impact on composition and<br />

59 Paul Bryan states without supporting evidence that Wanhal’s large-scale Stabat mater “was probably created<br />

sometime in the mid-1780s”; Paul Bryan, Johann Wanhal, Viennese Symphonist: His Life and His Musical<br />

Environment, vol. 23, Thematic Catalogues (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1997), 36n117.<br />

60 A-Wa, 740, 743, 753 and 761; all sets are for music by Reutter and are signed “Schmutzer.” On Schmutzer,<br />

see MVC, 981-87.<br />

61 Wiener Zeitung (1799): 4074 and 4123. I am grateful to Otto Biba for providing me with a copy of this<br />

advertisement. Names are transcribed exactly as they appear in the original. It is not clear who was selling all<br />

this music or where it had come from; the house was owned by Barbara von Neuhaus and the nearest church<br />

was St. Johann Nepomuk.<br />

83

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