Tenor Playlist-Schubert - Deutsche Messe - D872
8 videos • 2,902 views • by Choirparts Tenor Playlist: Franz Schubert’s "Deutsche Messe" is set to poems by Johann Philipp Neumann rather than traditional Latin text. Schubert’s Deutsche Messe is the most popular and enduring of the Austrian-German ‘low masses’, in which the congregation sang German hymns while the priest intoned the Latin mass. Franz Schubert’s Deutsche Messe, was written in 1827, near the end of his short life. The work has since gained popularity, and has been translated into English , and many other languages.