Mass No. 1 (Schubert)

The Mass No. 1 in F major, D. 105 is a Mass setting for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Franz Schubert from the year 1814.

The Mass in F major is Schubert's first publicly performed work. At the premiere on September 25, 1814, for the centenary of the light crowns parish church, played his elder brother Ferdinand the organ, Franz Schubert conducted himself and Joseph Mayseder, concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Vienna court orchestra, was sitting at the first desk. Schubert's childhood sweetheart, Therese Grob, who participated also at the first performances of the G, B, and C major Mass, sang the soprano solo. After the performance of Antonio Salieri should have embraced his disciple with the words. " Franz, you're my student, who will make me much honor," Just ten days later, on October 4, 1814 ( Franziskustag ) came the exhibition in Vienna's Augustiner Hofkirche. For a performance in the spring of 1815 he composed for an alternative " Dona nobis pacem " (D 185 ), a new joint, but this does not like the first version regarding the Kyrie set. As in all his Latin Mass settings can Schubert in the Creed the phrase " Et unam Sanctam Catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam " ( German: " [ I believe in ] the one holy catholic and apostolic Church " ) from.