Marian Music in The Enlightenment Era
Besides the above mentioned Vespers, Joseph Haydn wrote several Marian compositions including two famous Marian Masses, the Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, No. 5 in E flat major, also known as the Grosse Orgelmesse (Great Organ Mass) (H. 22/4) (1766) and the Missa Cellensis or Mariazellermesse No. 8 in C major, (H. 22/8) (1782)
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