The Missa sancti Bernardi von Offida in B-flat major by Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

, Hob. XXII:10, Novello 1, was written the same year as the Missa in tempore belli

Missa in tempore belli

Missa in tempore belli is Joseph Haydn’s tenth, and one of the most popular, of his fourteen settings of the mass.This mass is catalogued Mass No. 10 in C major, , and is sometimes known as the Paukenmesse due to the inclusion of the timpani in its orchestration...

, and it "may have been the first Mass Haydn wrote after his return from England." Yet it may also have been the second. It is usually given as Haydn's ninth setting of the Mass, though it's Hoboken number is XXII:10. This Mass was written in honor of St. Bernard of Offida

Bernard of Offida

Saint Bernard of Offida was a Catholic saint, born in Villa d'Appignano, near Offida in the Italian Marche. As a child he was a shepherd. As an adult he mostly lived at the Capuchin friary in Offida and devoted himself to helping the poor. He was at Fermo for a short stint...

, a Capuchin

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin is an Order of friars in the Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans. The worldwide head of the Order, called the Minister General, is currently Father Mauro Jöhri.-Origins :...

 monk who devoted himself to helping the poor; a century after the monk's death, he was beatified by Pope Pius VI

Pope Pius VI

Pope Pius VI , born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, was Pope from 1775 to 1799.-Early years:Braschi was born in Cesena...

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Scored for choir, 2 oboe

Oboe

The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...

s, clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

s (a later revision expanded their part), 2 bassoon

Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...

s, 2 trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

s in B-flat, timpani, strings and organ, the latter supplying figured bass

Figured bass

Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of integer musical notation used to indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones, in relation to a bass note...

 for most of the duration.

The setting is divided into six movements.

1. "Kyrie" Adagio - Allegro moderato, B-flat major, 3/4
2. "Gloria" Vivace, B-flat major, common time
   Common Time
   "Common Time" is a science fiction short story written by James Blish. It first appeared in the August 1953 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and has been reprinted several times: in the 1959 short-story collection Galactic Cluster; in The Testament of Andros ; in The Penguin Science Fiction...
   
   

   —"Gratias agimus tibi" Allegretto, 3/4

   —"Qui tollis peccata mundi" Più allegro, 3/4

   —"Quoniam tu solus sanctus" Vivace, common time

3. "Credo" Allegro, B-flat major, cut time

   —"Et incarnatus est" Adagio, E-flat major, 3/4

   —"Et resurrexit" Allegro, B-flat major, 3/4

   —"Et vitam venturi" Vivace assai, 3/4

4. "Sanctus" Adagio, B-flat major, cut time

   —"Pleni sunt coeli" Allegro, 3/4

5. "Benedictus" Moderato, E-flat major, 2/4
6. "Agnus Dei" Adagio, B-flat minor, 3/4

   —"Dona nobis pacem" Allegro, B-flat major, 3/4

The 'Sanctus' section of the mass is a setting of a then-popular Austrian tune to the German translation of Sanctus, Heilig. The Mass takes its popular German title, Heiligmesse, from this section.
The mass includes what are, for the time, unexpected modulations and innovative use of third relations that would influence later mass settings by nineteenth century composers. The Quoniam in Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner

Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...

's Missa Solemnis in B-flat minor

Missa Solemnis (Bruckner)

The Missa Solemnis WAB 29 by Anton Bruckner is a setting of the mass ordinary for vocal soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ.Following the death of Michael Arneth, Friedrich Mayr was appointed abbot of St. Florian. The Missa Solemnis was premiered on September 14, 1854, the day of Mayr's...

quotes this mass.