THE SPIRITUAL CONCERT

9 Allée Claude Debussy

Mozart composed much of his liturgical music in Salzburg, including about fifteen masses, litany, vesper, and various motets, as Konzertmeister to Prince-Archbishop Colloredo, who, in a reformist spirit, wanted the celebrations to be short. Mozart notably wrote in Salzburg his Brief Masses, early works still rarely performed today. Yet his style, built on balance and lyricism, is immediately evident in the two masses on this concert program, particularly in the brief solo lines with wonderfully crisp…