Moritz Brosig (1815–1887) was born in Lisie Kąty near Paczków in the Opole region. He was a composer, organ virtuoso, conductor, academic lecturer at the Royal Academic Institute of Church Music in Wrocław, honoris causa doctor of the University of Wrocław, Kapellmeister of the cathedral in Wrocław, royal music director and member of St. Cecilia’s Academy in Rome, and above all, a great defender of orchestral church music but with wise limitations. He was also an expert in the construction and renovation of pipe organs. In his creative output was placed as opus 31 the F minor / F major mass. It is also the fourth of nine cycles of ordinarium missae in the mass output of Brosig. The present work contains a source-critical edition of the notes of the Vierte-Messe based on the composer’s manuscript found in the collections of the Archdiocesan Archive and the Chapter Library in Wrocław.
This article presents the musical and composing activities of Joseph Franz Wolf (1802–1842) who was born in Czerwonków near Głubczyce in the Opole region. He became most famous as the organist of the Wrocław cathedral, although he was also appreciated as a pianist and trombonist. He held a university position as a music teacher at the Royal Academic Institute of Church Music in Wrocław, was an expert in the construction and renovation of organs, and headed the Wrocław Artists' Association as an artistic director. Wolf was also active in the field of concerts and composing, and his workshop resulted in numerous vocal and instrumental works of church music. He was particularly interested in the works of Viennese classics, which he eagerly studied and performed. Wolf's extensive and active musical activity, however, has not yet been comprehensively analyzed in the literature of the subject, and his work remains unknown to contemporary performance practice.
In the creative output of Moritz Brosig (1815–1887), the F minor / F major mass was placed as opus 31. It is also the fourth of nine cycles of ordinarium missae in the mass output of the bandmaster of the Wrocław cathedral. The Requiem and the German mass complete this output. The subject of this article is a description of the composition together with a source-critical edition of the notes based on the composer’s manuscript found in the collections of the Archdiocesan Archive and the Chapter Library in Wrocław. Due to the interventions that Brosig made in the score between the first and the second edition of his mass, the original composer’s manuscript will be compared with the 19th-century printed versions, which were published by F.E.C. Leuckart. The article will also include a description of the source, which will be crowned by a revision commentary.