Davide penitente Cantata by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4-Part - Sheet Music
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Davide penitente
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Orchestra SST vocal soli, SATB/SATB choir flute, 2 oboes, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 clarinos/trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, 2 violins, 2 violas, cello/contrabass, [speaker]
SKU: CA.5146900
Cantata. Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Wolfgang Gersthofer. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Mozart. German title: Davide Penitente Rev. 2006. Sacred vocal music, Oratorios, Lent and Passiontide. Full score. Composed 1785. KV 469. 152 pages. Duration 45 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 51.469/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5146900).ISBN 9790007090135. Key: C minor / c major. Language: Italian.
The Vienna Musicians' Society, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, asked Mozart, among others, to compose a choral work for performance at their benefit concert series. Presumably it was due not just to the pressure of a deadline, but also for the chance to have the music of the torso of the great C minor Mass, K. 427, performed in Vienna that he chose to arrange this composition for the Society as the cantata Davide penitente (The Mass was originally written for a performance in Salzburg in 1783). Thus, Mozart set the Kyrie and Gloria with a sacred text in Italian in the style of penitential prayers. The text was suited for Lent, which occurred at the time of the benefit concert. He also added one newly-composed aria for tenor and one aria for soprano.
