Early Mozart in Latin for ACO

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18 July 2004

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Early Mozart in Latin for ACO

A Christian motet – Mozart’s earliest masterpiece, sung in the Catholic Church’s official language of Latin – will be a highlight of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s next concert in Sydney.

Exsultate, jubilate, written when Mozart was only 16, had its premiere in Milan’s Church of San Antonio on January 17, 1773.

The brilliant motet for soprano is the only regularly performed work which represents Mozart’s early vocal music (it was first performed with a castrato singing the soprano part).

It calls on listeners to rejoice at the coming of Christ, saying “the friendly day shines forth both clouds and storms have fled now”.

The gloriously thrilling music ends with an appeal to Our Lady: “You, O crown of virgins, grant us peace, console our feelings, from which hearts sigh.”

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