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Claudio Abbado - Schubert: Mass No. 6 in E Flat Major, D. 950: II. Gloria (Excerpt)
We mark the premiere 197 years ago on 4 October 1829 of Schubert's Mass in E-flat in Vienna, conducted by Schubert's brother Ferdinand. The premiere was posthumous: Franz Schubert had died on 19 November 1828.
Claudio Abbado conducts the singers of the Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Philharmonic in an excerpt from the first section of the “Gloria in excelsis Deo”.
This performance comes from the 1986 All Saints' Day concert at Vienna’s Musikverein, where Abbado led Schubert’s late Mass