The Friends of the Music at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church New Canaan, CT Presents
Two Viennese Masses – Mozart Missa Brevis No. 1, in G; K49 and Schubert: Messe in G, D167.
Featuring:
The Choir of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, New Canaan, CT
Members of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra
Leah Brzyski, soprano
Lydia Cseh Dahling, mezzo-soprano
Trevor Scott, tenor
Matthew Dexter, bass-baritone
Michael Burnette, continuo
Edward J. Tipton, conducting

Saturday, March 8, 5pm in the soaring mid-century modern St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 111 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, CT.

Both masses were first performed in Vienna, where Schubert lived, and where Mozart visited many times. Mozart’s Missa Brevis No. 1 in G major was written when he was all of 12 years old. It was however not his first setting of a part of the mass ordinary: two years earlier he had already composed a Kyrie (K33), a sacred composition for choir and strings.

Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G major was composed in less than a week in early March 1815. Ironically it was not printed until 1845, some years after Schubert’s death. Until then it was one of his less-noted compositions but, arguably, remains the best known of all his Masses.