Church Sonatas (Mozart)

Seventeen sonatas by Mozart composed 1772-1780

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote seventeen Church Sonatas (sonate da chiesa), also known as Epistle Sonatas, between 1772 and 1780. These are short single-movement pieces intended to be played during a celebration of the Mass between the Epistle and the Gospel (hence the name that is sometimes attributed to them: sonatas of the epistle).[1] Three of the sonatas (K 263, 278/271e and 329/317a) include more orchestral scoring including oboes, horns, trumpets and timpani and the rest are scored for organ and strings (with no violas). In eight of the sonatas (K 224/241a, 225/241b, 244, 245, 263, 328/317c, 329/317a and 336/336d), the organ has an obbligato solo part and in the other nine, the organ accompanies along with the basso continuo.

Most of these pieces would be inserted into any mass setting of the appropriate key. Those requiring more instruments than the standard "Salzburg Church Quartet" are meant to go with specific mass settings that have that instrumentation.

Shortly after Mozart left Salzburg, the Archbishop mandated that an appropriate choral motet or congregational hymn be sung at that point in the liturgy, and the "Epistle Sonata" fell into disuse.

No.  | Köchel No. | Date composed  | Key  | Scoring  | NMA | Tempo

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1[2] | K.67/41h  | 1772  | E♭ major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Andantino
2  | K.68/41i  | 1772  | B♭ major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
3  | K.69/41k  | 1772  | D major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
4  | K.144/124a  | 1774  | D major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
5  | K.145/124b  | 1774  | F major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
6  | K.212  | 1775, July  | B♭ major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
7  | K.224/241a  | 1776  | F major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro con spirito
8  | K.225/241b  | 1776  | A major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
9  | K.241  | 1776, January  | G major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
10  | K.244  | 1776, April  | F major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
11  | K.245  | 1776, April  | D major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
12  | K.263  | 1776, December  | C major  | 2 violins, 2 trumpets, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
13  | K.274/271d  | 1777  | G major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
14  | K.278/271e  | 1777, April  | C major  | 2 violins, cello, bass, 2 oboes, 2 trumpets, timpani and organ  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
15  | K.328/317c  | 1779  | C major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
16  | K.329/317a  | 1779, March  | C major  | 2 violins, cello, bass, 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and organ  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro
17  | K.336/336d  | 1780  | C major  | 2 violins, organ, cello and bass  | (Score/Crit. report)  | Allegro

## Notes

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1. ^ Zaslaw, Neal, with Cowdery, William eds., The Compleat Mozart: A Guide to the Musical Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, pp. 109-112, New York: W. W. Norton, 1990, ISBN 0-393-02886-0
2. ^ On July 24, 2011, during the analog shutdown in Japan, HBC Hokkaido, a television station in Hokkaido, played Church Sonata 1 on its analog signal continuously between noon and midnight. Japanese television stations were required to broadcast an analog shutdown notice during that time frame.

## External links

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* Church Sonatas (Mozart): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

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Masses and other sacred music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Masses and Requiem|

* G major, K. 49/47d
* Waisenhausmesse C minor, K. 139/47a
* D minor, K. 65/61a
* Dominicusmesse C major, K. 66
* Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis C major, K. 167
* Kleine Credo Messe F major, K. 192/186f
* D major, K. 194/186h
* Sparrow Mass C major, K. 220/196b
* Missa longa C major, K. 262/246a
* Credo Mass C major, K. 257
* Piccolomini Mass or Spaur Mass C major, K. 258
* Orgelsolomesse C major, K. 259
* B-flat major, K. 275/272b
* Coronation Mass C major, K. 317
* Missa Solemnis C major, K. 337
* Great Mass C minor, K. 427/417a
* Requiem, K. 626
* Timeline

Other Mass-related|

* Kyrie in F major, K. 33 "Paris"
* Gradual Sancta Maria, mater Dei, K. 273
* Kyrie in D minor, K. 341/368a
* Epistle sonatas

Uncertain Mass|

* Pastoral Mass G major, K. 140/235d/Anh. C1.12

Spurious Masses|

* Twelfth Mass (attributed to W. Müller)
* Così fan tutte pasticcio Coronation Mass

Motets|

* God is our refuge, K. 20
* Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
* Ave verum corpus, K. 618

Vespers|

* Vesperae solennes de Dominica, K. 321
* Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339

Litanies|

* Litanies (Mozart): K. 109, K. 125, K. 195, K. 243

Choral works|

* Veni Sancte Spiritus, K. 47
* Regina coeli, K. 74d
* Regina coeli, K. 127
* Regina coeli, K. 276

Singspiel • Oratorio • Cantata|

* geistliches Singspiel Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K. 35
* oratorio Betulia liberata, K. 118/74c
* cantata Davide penitente, K. 469

Handel adaptations|

* Acis und Galatea, K. 566
* Der Messias, K. 572
* Das Alexander-Fest, K. 591
* Ode auf St. Caecilia, K. 592

Masonic ceremonial music|

* Maurerische Trauermusik, K. 477/479a

* List of masses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
* List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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