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Mass in D minor, K. 65

The Missa brevis in D minor, K. 65/61a, is a mass composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12 years old at the time) and completed on 14 January 1769. It is scored for SATB soloists and choir, violin I and II, 3 trombones colla parte, and basso continuo.

The long held belief, based on Sigismund Keller's assertion in 1873, that this mass was first performed on 5 February 1769, the pre-Lenten Sunday of Quinquagesima, in the University of Salzburg's Kollegienkirche to open a forty-hour vigil, has later been shown as untenable. As a Lenten mass, the Gloria could not have been performed.

This is Mozart's shortest setting of the Order of Mass, and his only missa brevis set in a minor key.

The mass is divided into six movements.

  1. Kyrie Adagio, D minor, common time
  2. : "Kyrie eleison" – Allegro, D minor, 3/4
  3. Gloria Allegro moderato, D minor, common time
  4. Credo Allegro moderato, D minor, 3/4
  5. : "Et incarnatus est" Adagio, D minor, cut common time
  6. : "Et resurrexit" Allegro moderato, D minor, 3/4
  7. : "Et vitam venturi saeculi" Più mosso, D minor, cut common time
  8. Sanctus Adagio, D minor, cut common time
  9. : "Pleni sunt coeli et terra" Allegro, D minor, common time
  10. : "Hosanna in excelsis" Allegro, D minor, 3/4
  11. Benedictus Andante, G minor, common time; soprano/alto duet
  12. : "Hosanna in excelsis" Allegro, D minor, 3/4
  13. Agnus Dei Andante, D minor, common time
  14. : "Dona nobis pacem" Vivace, D minor, 3/8

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