Mass No. 1 (Schubert)

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The Mass No. 1 in F major D 105 is a mass setting for solos, choir and orchestra by Franz Schubert from 1814.

The Mass in F major is Schubert's first publicly performed work. At the first performance on September 25, 1814, on the centenary of the Lichtental parish church , his older brother Ferdinand played the organ, Franz Schubert himself conducted and Joseph Mayseder , concertmaster of the orchestra of the Vienna Court Orchestra, sat at the front desk. Schubert's childhood love, Therese Grob, who also took part in the first performances of the G, B and C major masses, sang the soprano solo. After the performance, Antonio Salieri is said to have hugged his student with the words: "Franz, you are my student who will do me a lot of honor". Only ten days later, on October 4, 1814 (St. Francis Day), mass was heard in Vienna's Augustinerhof Church . For a performance in the spring of 1815 Schubert composed a new fugue for an alternative “Dona nobis pacem” (D 185), but this no longer refers to the Kyrie movement like the first version. As in all of his Latin mass settings, Schubert omits the sentence “Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam” (German: “[I believe in] the one holy Catholic and apostolic church”) in the Credo.

literature

  • Hans Jaskulsky: The Latin masses of Franz Schubert . Schott, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-7957-1784-1 .
  • Erich Benedikt: Notes on Schubert's masses. With a new premiere date of the mass in F major . In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift vol. 52 (1997), issue 1–2, p. 64.

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