Schöpfungsmesse


The Mass No. 13 in B-flat major, Hob. XXII/13, was composed by Joseph Haydn in 1801. It is known as the Schöpfungsmesse or Creation Mass because of the words "Qui tollis peccata mundi" in the Gloria, Haydn recycled music from the Adam and Eve's final duet in The Creation, a fact which scandalized Empress Maria Theresa so much that she ordered Haydn to recompose that passage for her own copy of the work.
The work consists of six movements:
  1. Kyrie, Adagio, B-flat major, 3/4
  2. : Kyrie, Allegro moderato, B-flat major, 6/8
  3. Gloria, Allegro, B-flat major, alla breve
  4. : Qui tollis, Adagio, E-flat major, 3/4
  5. : Quoniam tu solus sanctus, Molto vivace, B-flat major, common time
  6. : In gloria Dei Patris, Presto, B-flat major, common time
  7. Credo, Vivace, B-flat major, common time
  8. : Et incarnatus est, Adagio, G major, 3/4
  9. : Et resurrexit, Allegro, B-flat major, common time
  10. : Et vitum venturi, Più Allegro, B-flat major, common time
  11. Sanctus, Adagio, B-flat major, common time
  12. : Pleni sunt coeli, Allegro, B-flat major, common time
  13. Benedictus, Allegretto, E-flat major, 6/8
  14. Agnus Dei, Adagio, G major, 3/4
  15. : Dona nobis pacem, Allegro moderato, B-flat major, alla breve