Mass No. 5 (Schubert)

The Mass No. 5 in A flat major D 678 is a Mass setting for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Franz Schubert from the years 1822 or in 1826.

An initial version of the show was 1819-1822, the second version 1825-1826. Unlike the other shows, there was for Schubert in composing the Missa Solemnis in A flat major is no order or a particular party to which they designed would have been. This is already the long time which has taken the composition in claim: None of his works occupied him longer than the A flat major Mass, Schubert worked intermittently from November 1819 to December 1822 in this work. Ferdinand Schubert brought the show probably in 1822 or 1823 in the parish church Altlerchenfelder to Vienna ( he was there rain Chori ) for performance. This first performance is likely to have his brother Franz, however, not satisfied.

When he proposed in 1826, to apply for the vacant Vizehofkapellmeisterstelle for some time, he revised the fair fundamentally by example in the voices put some sections deeper and instrumental supported as well as the accompanying game characters of the string parts simplified and composed a new joint for the end of the Gloria.

This second version he gave to the court Kapellmeister Joseph Eybler - Antonio Salieri's successor - for performance in the court orchestra (Vienna). This she sent him, however, with the words "The show is good, but not componirt in the style, the Emperor loves " back. But also the revised version was apparently too long and still too difficult for the emperor. Individual blocks were heard again until 1863 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and 1874 at the Vienna Musikverein under the direction of Johannes Brahms. 1875 appeared a first printed sheet music.