Mass No. 3 (Bruckner)
The Mass No. 3 in F minor for solos, four-part mixed choir and orchestra is a musical work by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner ( WAB 28). It is the most recently composed of five masses by Anton Bruckner, three of which are numbered.
Emergence
In the spring of 1867, Bruckner received the order from the kuk Obersthofmeisteramt to compose a mass for the Viennese court music band. He was already working at the fair during a recovery cure in Bad Kreuzen , which he did from June to August 1867 as a result of a nervous disorder, and completed it the following September. However, the musicians of the court orchestra refused a performance because they considered the mass to be unplayable.
So Bruckner put the score back again. Four years later he had it premiered at his own expense. Bruckner was able to rent the opera orchestra for 300 guilders and win his friend Johann von Herbeck as conductor and his choir, the Wiener Singverein . However, Herbeck himself canceled his participation after the dress rehearsal. The premiere took place in Vienna's Augustinian Church on June 16, 1872 under the direction of Bruckner himself. Although the premiere did not go particularly well due to the adverse circumstances, it was a considerable success for Bruckner, who had not yet caught on in Vienna.
In the following years Bruckner revised the mass four times (1876, 1877, 1881 and 1890–93); after his death it became one of the most popular choral works of the Romantic era.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Auer: Anton Bruckner, His life and work . Vienna 1932, pp. 250–53. See also the following article, G. Waidelich, “Dem Höchst zur Verherrigung”, Musikfreunde magazine , April 2013 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Mass in F minor (Bruckner) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Discography of the Mass in F minor