St. Paul's CathedralThe Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Sung Eucharist
Theresienmesse by Haydn
St. Paul's Cathedral Consort
with the City of London Sinfonia
St. Paul's is the Mother Church of the Diocese of London and worship has been offered on this site since AD 604. St. Paul's belongs to the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) made a significant contribution to almost every genre of music that was prevalent in his day, his style epitomising the charm and elegance of the Classical Period, while retaliating the musical integrity of Baroque invention and prefiguring the expressive characteristics of the Romantic Era.
The mass in B flat, or "Theresienmesse" (the Theresa Mass) is one of the six great masses composed between 1796 and 1802 in honor of Princess Maria Hermenegild, the wife of Haydn's patron Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy II.
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