This was the second mass of the fifty he was eventually to compose, several of which were dedicated to monarchs. For Neukomm remained a monarchist to the end of his life. The words of his ‘Canon Républicain’, written less than five years before his death, clearly proclaim his convictions: Liberté (pour faire le mal) Égalité (dans la misère) Fraternité (de Caïn à son frère) voilà le cri de la république. Vive la république!2
In addition to the mass sung at the Congress of Vienna, the masses written for monarchs include the Missa Sancti Philippi, dedicated to the King of the French and performed by more than two thousand voices on the occasion of the fourth centenary of Gutenberg; a requiem composed for the Chapelle Royale at Dreux to mark the anniversary of the death of the Duc d’Orléans; the Missa Sancti Francisci, composed in Rio at Janeiro at the request of the wife of the Emperor of Brazil for her father, Franz I, Emperor of Austria; and the mass for the coronation of the King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, which was censured and was not performed on the occasion for which it was intended.
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Missa pro defunctis manibus parentum praeceptorumque suorum Mich. et Ios. Haydn nec non F. X. Weissauer D. D. D. ab equite Sigism. Neukomm1