Kronstorfer Messe

The Kronstorfer Messe, WAB 146, is a missa brevis composed by Anton Bruckner in 1843-1844.
History.
Bruckner composed the "Kronstorfer Messe", WAB 146, in 1843–1844, while he was a schoolteacher's assistant in Kronstorf. This "Choral-Messe" in D minor for mixed choir "a cappella" was presumably intended for the Lenten season.
The work, the manuscript of which was archived in the St. Florian Monastery, was premiered by Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter on 1 December 1974 in the church of the monastery. The work is put in Band XXI/41 of the .
Setting.
The work is divided into four parts:
Total duration: about 5 minutes.
This Missa brevis, also called [], exhibits relationships to Palestrina's style. The mass survives only in a fragmentary state, without "Credo". The manuscript, with, on the front page, an autograph indication "Sine Gloria", contains two blank pages with an autograph indication that they were to contain a "Credo" in F major.
Alike the contemporaneous "Asperges me" in F major (WAB 4), the "Agnus Dei" in F major contains audacious modulations.
Note.
The "Sanctus" is re-used in a slightly modified setting for that of the next "Messe für den Gründonnerstag".
Discography.
There are two recordings of the Mass: