![]() Already known for consistently omitting certain passages from the text, Schubert took even greater freedoms in the late masses, adding and removing text in a bid to "deepen expression or enhance a particular aspect of meaning". These are distinguished from his four early masses by their "musically interpretive stance to the words" Schubert began to take advantage of an overall maturation in his technical capabilities and knowledge of harmony, coupled with his experience in composing both sacred and secular music, to add further meaning to the standard text. This setting and the later Mass in E-flat major are regarded as Schubert's "late masses". Schubert wrote out the organ part in October or November 1822, and although plans were made for a performance in 1823, records of a performance in Schubert's lifetime do not exist. Various projects had competed for the composer's attention in the meantime, including his brother Ferdinand's request for a mass ( D 755). Schubert commenced composition of the mass in November 1819, completing it three years later in 1822. It is scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, SATB choir with divisi, violin I and II, viola, flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones colla parte, timpani and basso continuo ( cello, double bass and organ). There is no record of a performance during Schubert's lifetime. 5 in A-flat major, D 678, is a mass composed by Franz Schubert, completed in 1822. Franz Schubert in 1825 (watercolor by Wilhelm August Rieder)
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