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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [a] [b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of ...
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Describing his funeral, the Grove Dictionary of Music and...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) was a prolific composer...
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The Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is a Requiem Mass by...
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After moving to Vienna Mozart started to compose the Great Mass in C minor, with a broad orchestration including violas and 12 wind instruments. In 1791, he started writing a Requiem mass, which was unfinished when he died and was first completed by his pupil Franz Xaver Süssmayr . Most nicknames of the masses were later additions.
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For over a thousand years of the history of the Cracow Diocese, Wawel Cathedral has been renowned for the beauty of its liturgical services, with special emphasis on liturgical music. Liturgy books, such as the Sacramentary of Tyniec from ca. 1060, testify that Gregorian chant was performed at Wawel Cathedral as early as the second half of the ...
a transept and three apses adjoining from the east. The construction of the third, Gothic, cathedral began with the gradual demolition of the western part of the Romanesque church, most probably during the times of the Czech reign in Cracow ca. 1300. At that time Jan Muskata was the Bishop of Cracow.
The first cathedral church at Wawel was probably built shortly after the Cracow Bishopric was established in the year 1000. Too little is known about the original cathedral to be able to reconstruct its appearance. More is known about the successive Romanesque church from the turn of the 11th and the 12th centuries.
The Krönungsmesse (German for Coronation Mass) (Mass No. 15 in C major, K. 317; sometimes Mass No. 16), composed in 1779, is one of the most popular of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 17 extant settings of the Ordinary of the Mass.
History. The John Paul II Cathedral Museum is situated on Wawel Hill, between the Vasa Gate and the former seat of the Castle Seminary, in the Cathedral House, which was made up from two 14th century buildings. Its eastern part, adjoining the Vasa Gate, was formerly a tenement built in the time of Kazimierz the Great, which had been in the ...
