Music in the History of the Western Church, With An Introduction On Religious Music Among Primitive And Ancient Peoples;
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Haydn could hardly venture to intro- duce any innovation into the style of religious music sanctioned by his august masters, the Esterhazys. Mozart wrote all his masses, with the exception of the Requiem, for the chapel of the prince archbishop of Salzburg. In this establishment the length of the mass was prescribed, the mode of writing and performance, which had become traditional, hindered freedom of de- velopment, and therefore Mozart's works of this class everywhere give evidence of constra...int. On the other hand, the leading composers of the present century that have occupied themselves with the mass have been free from such arbitrary compulsions. They have written masses, not as a part of routine duty, but as they were inspired by the holy words and by the desire to offer the free gift of their genius at the altar of the Church. They have been, as a rule, devoted churchmen, but they 205 MUSIC IN THE WESTERN CHUB.CH have felt that they had the sympathy of the Church in asserting the rights of the artist as against prelatical conservatism and local usage.
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