Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - list of masses

List of authentic Mozart masses

1. Missa solemnis in C minor, K 139 (47a) 'Waisenhausmesse'

2. Missa brevis in G major, K 49 (47d)

3. Missa brevis in D minor, K 65 (61a)

4. Missa solemnis in C major, K 66 'Dominicusmesse'

5. Missa (in honorem Sanctissimæ Trinitatis) in C major, K 167

6. Missa brevis in F major, K 192 (186f)

7. Missa brevis in D major, K 194 (186h)

8. Missa brevis in C major, K 220 'Spatzenmesse'

9. Missa longa in C major, K 262 (246a)

10. Missa brevis in C major, KV 258 ' 'Piccolomini', or 'Spaurmesse'

11. Missa brevis in C major, K 257 'Credo'

12. Missa brevis in C major, K 259 'Orgelsolo'

13. Missa brevis in B flat major, K 275

14. Missa solemnis in C major, K 317 'Krönungsmesse', or Coronation mass

15. Missa solemnis in C major, K 337 'Missa aulica'

16. Missa solemnis in C minor, K 427 (417a) 'Great Mass' (incomplete)

17. Requiem in D minor, K 626 (incomplete)

Dubious or spurious

Something approaching 40 masses have been incorrectly attributed to Mozart, of which the following are probably the best known:

• Missa brevis in F major, KV 116 (90a)

An incomplete mass in the hand of Leopold Mozart, but probably a copy made of a "foreign" work.

• Missa brevis in G major, KV 140 (Anhang C1.12)

Ascribed to Mozart on the basis of corrections to instrumental parts in Mozart's handwriting, but may be the work of another composer. The work was renumbered as K 235d in Köchel 3, and then relegated to an appendix, K Anh.C1.12, in Köchel 6, but may be considered authentic by the new edition of Köchel in preparation. (Stay tuned!)

4 editions available (complete mass and individual movements, organ version and full orchestra version)

• Missa in G major (or Gloria alone, in C major), K Anh.232 (C1.04)
  • Gloria

This mass was famously misattributed as "Mozart's Twelfth Mass" by the publishing firm of Novello; the work is actually by Wenzel Müller (1767–1835).