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This is one of the three "shorter" Mass compositions which Schubert composed between the more elaborate 1st and 5th masses. Also the later '' Deutsche Messe '' and the ultimate 6th Mass would be longer. The 2nd mass was composed in less than a week ( 2 to 7 March 1815), the year after his first mass had been successfully performed in Schubert's home parish. The 2nd mass is, however, more modestly scored (strings and organ orchestra, later brass and drums added by Schubert's brother Ferdinand). The score was not printed until several decades after Schubert's death and had remained one of Schubert's less noted compositions - so much so that that first edition of the mass had been usurped by another composer, who, eventually, ended up in prison for embezzlement. Apart from some passages for the soprano soloist, the solistic interventions are very modest. Characteristically for Schubert, he is more interested in an over-all devotional ''mood'' of a religious composition than in individualistic romantic text-expression (as e.g. Beethoven would use in his masses). MEDIA The recording presented below is by the MIT Concert Choir (Cutter) - 2000: |
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