Name: Nelson Mass
Start: 2023-11-02T19:30:00
Location: Chelmsford Cathedral

Richard Cooke

Miriam Allan

Hannah Cooke

Nicholas Madden

Richard Bannan

London Mozart Players

Haydn’s Nelson Mass was composed in 1798 against a backdrop of fear as Napoleon’s army fought its way to Austria. Haydn didn’t know it, but while he was writing this choral masterpiece (originally called Missa in Angustiis or ‘Mass for Troubled Times’), the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson was delivering a stunning victory over the French forces at the Battle of the Nile. News of the victory supposedly reached Haydn on the day of the work’s premiere, and so began its association with the naval hero, cemented when Nelson visited the Esterhazy court and met Haydn in 1800.

Nelson Mass

Chelmsford Cathedral

Symphony No. 29

Zadok the Priest