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[ A. M. Z.f I., p. 116.]
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[ It is very interesting to compare Michael Haydn's Litaniæ de venerabili sacramento in G minor (Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel), which was written at the same time and under similar circumstances. It is an excellent work, displaying the cultivation of a master both in design and execution. The fact of its being on the whole less graceful, and more serious, only shows the difference of the artistic nature of the two masters; the general conception is not essentially different, and Michael Haydn also yields to operatic influence.]
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[ This movement ended originally in B flat major. Mozart rightly preferred to close the introduction in the dominant (F major), and thus gave greater breadth to the finale.]
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[ Mozart has abbreviated it in three places, and has altered wherever necessary. The shortened fugue is printed in Cantate I.]
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[ L. Mozart wrote at the beginning: "The solo of the Agnus Dei is written in the bass for Herr Meissner.">[