Mozart’s powerful Great Mass in C minor (1783) reveals Mozart at the height of his brilliance. Unfinished at the time of his death, this large-scale work is scored for two sopranos, a tenor and a bass with a double chorus and orchestra. The composition embodies the pomp and solemnity associated with the Salzburg traditions of the time and anticipates the symphonic masses of Joseph Haydn. Completed a few years earlier, Vesperae solennes de confessore was composed for liturgical use in the Salzburg Cathedral. Its best-known movement, the Laudate Dominum, has a beautifully written solo for soprano.