Mass No. 5 (Schubert)

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The exhibition no. 5 in A-flat major D 678 is a mass setting for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Franz Schubert from the years 1822 and 1826th

A first version of the mass was created between 1819 and 1822, the second between 1825 and 1826. In contrast to the other masses, Schubert did not have a commission or a specific festival for the composition of the Missa solemnis in A flat major would have been. This has been proven by the long time it took for the composition to complete: none of his works occupied him longer than the Mass in A flat major; Schubert worked on this work with interruptions from November 1819 to December 1822. Ferdinand Schubert probably performed the mass as early as 1822 or 1823 in the Altlerchenfeld parish church in Vienna (he was Regens Chori there ). This first performance is unlikely to have satisfied his brother Franz.

When in 1826 he intended to apply for the position of Vice-Court Conductor, which had been vacant for a long time, he fundamentally revised the Mass. B. In the choir parts, some sections were lowered and instrumentally supported, as well as the accompanying characters in the string parts simplified and a new fugue composed for the end of the Gloria.

He handed this second version over to the Hofkapellmeister Joseph Eybler - Antonio Salieri's successor - for performance in the Vienna Hofburgkapelle . The latter, however, sent it back to him with the words "The mass is good, but not composed in the style that the emperor loves". For the Kaiser, however, the revised version was apparently too long and still too difficult. Individual movements were not heard again until 1863 in the Leipzig Gewandhaus and in 1874 in the Wiener Musikverein under the direction of Johannes Brahms . In 1875 the first printed sheet music was published.

The importance Schubert must have attached to this fair is shown, among other things. a. also in the fact that he mentioned them in the same breath as the great operas or the C major symphony when he approached Schott-Verlag in Mainz in the last year of his life. Schubert writes in this regard, "I am only listing these last comps [ositions] so that you are familiar with my pursuit of the highest in art". This striving for the highest in art is occasionally associated with Schubert's E-flat major Mass , although he did not begin to compose it until a few months after the aforementioned writing.

literature

  • Hans Jaskulsky: The Latin masses of Franz Schubert . Schott, Mainz 1986, ISBN 3-7957-1784-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen : Franz Schubert. CH Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62135-2 , p. 99 f.