Mass No. 2 (Schubert)
The Mass No. 2 in G major, D. 167 is a Mass setting for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Franz Schubert from the year 1815.
Origin and history
According entry in the autograph score of just 18 -year-old Schubert composed the Mass in less than a week, from 2 to 7 March 1815. Since he interrupted this work on his Symphony No. 2, we may assume that Schubert for Fair received a commission. In the first version was for the orchestra only one at the Vienna church trio (2 violins and basso continuo, here extended to the viola ) oriented small cast provided. Probably the work was first performed in this form in 1815 under Schubert's own line in the Lichttaler parish church.
At a later date, not exactly certain advanced Schubert the occupation of the plant by trumpets and timpani. Since Eusebius Mandyczewski, the publisher of the work under the old Schubert Complete Edition (1887 ), held these extensions to be spurious, he took only the first version of the edition, which was decisive for the coming decades for the reception of the exhibition. Only in the 1980s, the original set of parts was found by the hand of Franz Schubert with the instrumental extensions in Klosterneuburg again where there had been the first detectable performance of this version on July 11, 1841.
The first edition of the exhibition took place in 1846, but incorrectly under the name of former Prague Kapellmeister Robert leaders, who had recently lost his job because of fraud and later landed because of various offenses in prison. Schubert's brother Ferdinand demanded that in 1847, a newspaper article, the correction that was made in the next edition of the print.
Ferdinand Schubert extended in 1847 for his part the occupation of the exhibition by another oboe (or clarinet ) and bassoons.
Construction
- Kyrie (Soprano solo, Choir - G major )
- Gloria (soprano and bass solo, chorus - D Major )
- Credo ( Choir - G major )
- Sanctus ( Choir - D Major )
- Benedictus (soprano, tenor and bass solo, chorus - G major modulates to D major )
- Agnus Dei (soprano and bass solo, chorus - E minor modulates to G major )
The performance lasts about 25 minutes
Occupation
- Soprano, tenor and bass solo
- Choir ( SATB)
- 2 Oboes (or clarinet ) ad libitum, 2 bassoons ad libitum, 2 trumpets ad libitum, timpani ad libitum, strings ( violin I & II, viola, cello, double bass), organ
Description of the work
The fair is predominantly homophonic and -song set, and thus focused on the possibilities of a smaller church community back. Only the Benedictus is designed as a three -part canon, and the Osanna - sections of the Sanctus and Benedictus are composed as fugati.
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, and in this publication, even the phrase " Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum " ( German: " I look for the resurrection of the dead " ), and thus gives his own personal reservations about certain central Christian beliefs expression.
The G- major Mass is one of the most frequently performed sacred works of Franz Schubert.
Clips
Recordings of the MIT Concert Choir, conducted by William Cutter ( 2000)