Nicholas J Roberts:
>Can anyone enlighten me as to the music deemed 'masonic' by Mozart,
>Sibelius and Haydn? I'm currently writing a paper on the subject.
OK, but only if you know the secret handshake. Oh, all right...My quick
research reveals a little information (that is, I had to look most of it
up.) [& please excuse my very poor German. (Someday we'll be able to do
this with proper accents!! Imagine!)]:
Sibelius: Musique religieuse, Op. 113
Mozart: Thamos, Koenig in Aegypten (incidental music to Baron von Gebler's
masonic play), K.345/336a
Maurerisch Trauermusik [Masonic Funeral Music], K.477/479a
Dir, Seele des Weltalls (cantata), K.429/468a [possibly masonic]
Die ihr des unsermesslichen Weltalls Schopfer ehrt (cantata), K.619
Laut verkunde unsre Freude (cantata), K.623
& Die Zauberflote (of course), the most masonic of all.
Many other suspected masonic pieces, or pieces used in this manner.
Haydn: Was a mason, but no confirmed masonic music per se, but much has
(apparently) been adopted by practitioners of The Craft.
Grove's has a good article where I got most of this; look up "Masonic
Music".
Hope this helps,
Bob K.
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