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CATHEDRAL, SIGISMUND BELL, ROYAL SARCOPHAGUSES: Monday – Saturday: 9:00 – 16:30. Sunday: 12:30 – 16:30. CATHEDRAL MUSEUM: Monday – Saturday: 9:00 – 17:00. Sunday: Closed. ARCHDIOCESAN MUSEUM: Tuesday -Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00.
- History of Wawel Cathedral
In the 17th century, a vocal and instrumental ensemble was...
- Cracow Cathedral Chapter
Canons: Rev. Prelate Jacek Urban – Dean Rev. Bishop Janusz...
- The Wawel Cathedral Museum
St Maurice’s spear, 10th century. The exhibition shows the...
- Music in the Cathedral
He published the three-volume work Musical Art for Polish...
- Archcathedral Parish
4 July – Anniversary of the consecration of Wawel Cathedral,...
- The Cathedral of John Paul II
John Paul II’s great attachment to this site were seen in...
- The Cathedral of Cracow Bishops
The cathedral chronology is reflected in the patronage of...
- The Royal Cathedral
Among numerous chapels at Wawel Cathedral, the one founded...
- The Cathedral of National Poets and Heroes
Wawel Cathedral has always been a synthesis of the history...
- Cathedral Bells and Towers
From the very beginning Wawel Cathedral has resounded with...
- History of Wawel Cathedral
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.
St Maurice’s spear, 10th century. The exhibition shows the oldest and most important Polish regalia, as well as objects of religious cult: handicraft, clothes, paintings and sculptures, being donations of kings, bishops and members of nobility and ranked among the nation’s most precious treasures.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) composed several masses and separate mass movements (such as Kyrie). [1] Mozart composed most of his masses as a church musician in Salzburg: Masses for regular Sundays or smaller feasts belonged to the missa brevis type.
Feb 28, 2020 · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C minor (K. 427) stands alongside the Requiem (K. 626) as his most remarkable church composition. Today it enjoys almost cult status, first because of its monumentality, which is unique in Mozart’s sacred vocal music, and second because, like the Requiem, it partakes of the aura of the unfinished and mysterious.
Great Mass in C minor (German: Große Messe in c-Moll), K. 427/417a, is the common name of the musical setting of the mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which is considered one of his greatest works. He composed it in Vienna in 1782 and 1783, after his marriage, when he moved to Vienna from Salzburg.
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In the 17th century, a vocal and instrumental ensemble was installed at the cathedral often under outstanding composers: Franciszek Lilius, Bartłomiej Pękiel and Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki. Wawel Cathedral holds a very special place in the history of Poland and the Poles’ national awareness.
