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Mass no6 in E flat, D950 Mass in E flat, D950

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Franz Schubert (born Vienna, 31 January 1797; died Vienna, 19 November 1828)

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Premieres

First Performance: tbc.

First Performance in UK: tbc.

First Performance in Scotland: Edinburgh (Usher Hall), 31 August 1968.

 

Background

A beautiful work from the end of Schubert's life, composed in 1828, and worthy to stand alongside similar pieces by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Rather like the late Haydn masses, it is unaccountably neglected.