Second Annual St. Patrick Mozart Festival presents
Mozart & Michael
St. Patrick in White Lake
June 7, 2026 at 5pm
Featuring Mozart's "Coronation Mass" in C Major K.317 & Michael Haydn's "Application" MH323* hemisphere premier
YouTube Video: St. Patrick Lorica Choir- "Credo" Mass in C Major K.257: Gloria (W.A. Mozart)
This year, the St. Patrick Lorica Choir along with professional orchestra and vocal soloists will be presenting Mozart’s beloved Coronation Mass and Michael Haydn’s cantata Applicatio, which is likely to be the first time this music has been played since its premiere in 1782.
Michael Haydn was the younger brother of the internationally well-known composer Joseph Haydn. He was also a prolific and celebrated composer as he came of age in mid-18th century Vienna. In 1762 he accepted a job in Salzburg, Austria and became a colleague of Mozart’s father Leopold. Wolfgang Mozart, only six years old at the time, was starting his career as a composer and wonderchild. Over the next two decades Wolfang would also become Michael Haydn’s professional colleague in Salzburg, and the two would hold each other’s music in high esteem.
A letter from Mozart to his Sister
Rome 7 July 1770 (14 years old)
Cara Sorella Mia!
I am amazed to find how well you can compose. In a word, the song is beautiful. Try this more often. Send me soon the other six minuets by Haydn, I beg you, Farewell.
Wolfgang Mozart
Michael Haydn’s Applicatio is a cantata in the style of an “applausus musicus”, a multi-movement celebratory piece in Latin. It was written in honor of the 50th anniversary of Beda Seeauer, abbot of the historical St. Peters Abbey in Salzburg, entering the Benedictine monkhood. Beda Seeauer was also a respected professor at the University of Salzburg, and seems to also have been Michael Haydn’s landlord! After the piece was presented in 1782, there was no immediate practical use for re-performance, and it sat in obscurity for 242 years. In 2024, Salzburg scientist and musician Wolfgang Esser-Skala published the first modern edition on his website, marking the first time that this music has been accessible for performance. The piece is highly influenced by the Gregorian chant psalm tones that the monks would have been singing every day, but also has the quintessential elegant sound of the Classical era, creating a splendid hybrid sonic experience. We are thrilled to be giving this music its first modern performance.
Mozart’s Coronation Mass is one of the most widely revered and performed settings of the Roman Catholic mass. Probably written to be performed on Easter Sunday in the Salzburg Cathedral in 1779, this energetic and elaborate composition was performed by Mozart several times during his short life. It was the selected mass setting for Francis II’s coronation as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1792, and was thereafter the preferred music for sacred imperial celebrations.
This concert will be held on June 7, 2026 at 5pm in the sanctuary of St. Patrick Church White Lake.
There are no tickets for this performance, but a suggested donation of $20 which can be accepted upon arrival.
St. Patrick Church White Lake
9086 Hutchins Road
White Lake, MI 48386
$20 suggested donation
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If you would like to sponsor our performance, please contact the music director Constantine Novotny at music@stpwl.org or donate using the link below.