Mass No. 3 (Bruckner)

The Mass No. 3 in F minor for soloists, four-part mixed choir and orchestra is a musical work by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner ( WAB 28). It is the last composed of 5 measuring Anton Bruckner, of which only 3 are numbered.

Formation

In the spring of 1867 Bruckner received from k.u.k. Lord High Steward commissioned to compose a mass for the Vienna Hofburg chapel. However, he worked on the show already during a rest cure in Bad crosses, which he made as a result of a nervous suffering from June to August 1867 and completed it the following September. However, the Court Orchestra musicians rejected a performance, because they regarded the show as unplayable.

So Bruckner put the score back, but was then willing four years later to organize the long-overdue premiere itself. Bruckner could rent the opera orchestra for 300 guilders and win his friend Johann von Herbeck as conductor and its choir, the Vienna Singing club, but Herbeck said his participation after the dress rehearsal from unnerved. Thus, the first performance was given in Vienna's St. Augustine's Church on 16 June 1872, conducted by Bruckner himself instead. Although the premiere because of the adverse circumstances did not succeed very well, she was a remarkable success for Bruckner, who had not yet become established in Vienna to date.

In the following years, Bruckner revised the show four times (1876, 1877, 1881 and 1890-93 ); after his death she became one of the most popular choral works of romance.