Bruckner's early Masses#Windhaager Messe

The Mass in C major for solo voice, two horns, choir and organ is a musical work by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner ( WAB 25). As the show in 1842 during Bruckner's stay in the village Windhaag bei Freistadt originated, it is also called wind Hague Fair. This fair is the first of three so-called " Choral- Measure", composed by Bruckner, when he was an assistant teacher in Windhaag and in Kronstorf.

Bruckner wrote the Windhaag fair as eighteen year old assistant teacher. Because of the simplicity it is considered early work Bruckner, which developed in later years with large-scale mass compositions own musical language; first at the Missa Solemnis of 1854, then to his studies at Simon Sechter in the three numbered Fairs ( Mass No. 1 in D Minor, Mass No. 2 in E minor and Mass No. 3 in F minor ).

The Hague fair wind can be in the normal liturgical practice does not use good because Bruckner in the text-heavy Gloria and Credo some passages did not compose. From the desire of being able to use the music of Bruckner's still in the liturgy, was created in 1927 editing for four-part mixed choir, string quintet, two horns and organ, or with organ accompaniment. The original processing comes from Cajetan Schmidinger, while Joseph Messner " revised, expanded and provided with an organ accompaniment " has.