Joseph Haydn's eleventh mass - entitled "Missa in Angustiis" or 'Mass in Troubled Times' was composed in the summer of 1798 in the midst of a series of financial cutbacks imposed by his patron, Prince Nokolaus Esterhazy II, as a result of the economic turmoil from Napoleon's invasion of Austria the previous year. The wind players of the Esterhazy orchestra had been dismissed, and the composer was exhausted and ill in the wake of his preparation and supervision of his oratorio "The Creation." The work was given its premiere on September 23, 1798 at Stadtpfarrkirche near Eisenstadt. The...

Novello's original orchestral accompaniment for his arrangement of the well-loved Christmas hymn - Adeste fideles CMSR 139. Full score and set of parts are sold together.