Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - list of masses

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List of authentic Mozart masses

prob. order title instr.
1 Missa solemnis in C minor, K 139 (47a) 'Waisenhausmesse' 2200-2030-tym str
2 Missa brevis in G major, K 49 (47d) 4-part strings
3 Missa brevis in D minor, K 65 (61a) 2 violins bc (3 trombones colla parte)
4 Missa solemnis in C major, K 66 'Dominicusmesse' 220?-22(2)00-typ str (2 pairs each of clarini & trombi)
5 Missa (in honorem Sanctissimæ Trinitatis) in C major, K 167 0200-2(2)00-tymp. 2 violins bc (trumpets & clarini)
6. Missa brevis in F major, K 192 (186f) 2 violins bc (2 trumpets 3 trombones added later)
7 Missa brevis in D major, K 194 (186h) 2 violins bc (3 trombones colla parte)
8 Missa brevis in C major, K 220 'Spatzenmesse' 2 violins bc 2 trumpets timp. (3 trombones colla parte)
9 Missa longa in C major, K 262 (246a) 0200-2200 2 violins bc
10 Missa brevis in C major, KV 258 ' 'Piccolomini', or 'Spaurmesse' 020?-0230("clarini") timp. 2 violins bc
11 Missa brevis in C major, K 257 'Credo' 020?-0230 ("clarini") timp. 2 vln bc
12 Missa brevis in C major, K 259 'Orgelsolo' 020?-0230 timp. 2 violins bc & organo obligato
13 Missa brevis in B flat major, K 275 2 violins bc
14 Missa solemnis in C major, K 317 'Krönungsmesse', or Coronation mass 0202-2230-timp. 2 violins bc
15 Missa solemnis in C major, K 337 'Missa aulica' 0202-0230 timp 2 violins bc
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) (2 violins & bc)
An incomplete mass in the hand of Leopold Mozart, but probably a copy made of a "foreign" work.
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)
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).