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Which sacred work did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart write for the singer Venanzio Rauzzini?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, oil on canvas by Barbara Krafft, 1819.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the three-movement motet titled Exsultate, jubilate (K 165) expressly for the Italian castrato Venanzio Rauzzini.12
Mozart composed this sacred work in 1773 while in Milan, having been impressed by Rauzzini's powerful high voice during the singer's performance in the leading role of Mozart's opera Lucio Silla. The motet is celebrated for its joyful mood and its brilliant, exuberant final movement, which features a famous setting of "Alleluia".12