Schubert, Franz : Missa

The period over which the Mass in F major was written can be followed step by step by virtue of Schubert himself having written dates in the autograph score (Schubert wrote the work with a few interruptions between May and July 1814), and what prompted him to compose it is only too well known ñ the centenary of the Lichtental parish church ñ, but the day it was first performed was not clear for quite some time.