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Anton Diabelli's
Pastoral Mass

Anton Diabelli, a competent and very productive composer of attractive music, is best known as the author of a musical idea from which another composer made a masterpiece. He was a choir boy in Salzburg Cathedral and is reputed to have had lessons with Michael Haydn there. Before he was 20 he wrote notable compositions, including the Pastoral Mass in F Major, Op. 147.

Sung at Villa Maria Church, 21 August 2011

Video Excerpts

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Kyrie

 

Credo Trio

 

Soloists left to right: Celeste Haworth, Alison Kimble-Fry, Emilie Lemasson

 

Sanctus

 

Agnus Dei