The complete Masses
Franz Schubert's Latin masses, together with those of Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, are among the highlights of the genre. In terms of their expressiveness they already anticipate works from much later in the nineteenth century. The Carus slipcase contains study scores of all six Latin masses by Schubert. These study scores are based on the historical-critical (conducting) scores that have already been published as part of the complete edition of Schubert's sacred works – including a first edition of the Mass in G major – and they are presented in a uniform layout.
This slipcase collection makes Schubert's settings of the Mass accessible to musicians, researchers, students and music lovers for the first time in a handy, reliable and affordable way.
This slipcase collection makes Schubert's settings of the Mass accessible to musicians, researchers, students and music lovers for the first time in a handy, reliable and affordable way.
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Franz Schubert
| 1797-1828Throughout most of his life Franz Schubert was concerned with church music. When he was eleven he was chosen as treble soloist at his local church in the Vienna suburb of Lichtenthal and soon afterwards he was admitted to the choir of the Imperial Court Chapel, directed by Antonio Salieri. Soon he also began to compose; his earliest surviving sacred pieces date from 1812. During his lifetime his church music achieved a comparatively wide degree of acceptance but after his death, most notably, his smaller works were unjustly forgotten. The Carus programme encompasses Schubert’s complete sacred compositions and it is intended to emphasize the wide range of his works in this area. Many of the smaller liturgical compositions are published here for the first time in separate editions. What is to be discovered is a fascinating œuvre, rooted in the ‘stile antico’ of Antonio Salieri and in the compositions of the Viennese classical masters, but whose exquisite lyricism and harmonic subtlety reveal a typically Schubertian world of expression: works with great power of conviction and exceptional musical beauty. Personal details
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Für den Konzertbesuch oder bei der Programmplanung, Studienpartituren sind eine praktische Angelegenheit. Der Carus-Verlag legt im geschmackvoll gestalteten Schuber die Messen in F, G, B, C, As und Es-Dur im Urtext auf dem Stand der neuesten Forschung vor. Die „kleine” G-dur-Messe bezieht dabei selbstverständlich die Stimmen der wiederaufgefundenen zwei Trompeten und Pauken mit ein. Alle Ausgaben sind auch als Dirigierpartituren nebst Stimmenmaterial erhältlich.
Forum Kirchenmusik, 1/2011