There are also numerous settings of texts in honor of the Virgin Mary, the Tantum ergo, and some antiphons and offertories. There is no particular liturgical function for the duet aria Auguste jam coelestium, D 488, whose soprano part was probably written specifically for the high voice of Therese Grob, whom the young Schubert is believed to have loved. Straightforward, by contrast, are the Six Antiphons for the blessing of the palms on Palm Sunday, D 696, which Schubert composed for his brother Ferdinand, a teacher, who needed little pieces which his pupils could learn easily. A few years later these pieces served as models for the German Mass, D 872, with eight short German sacred songs, strophic in form, to words by Johann Philipp Neumann. 70.058 Der 23.
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This autograph, which was long thought to have dissapeared, has been found in a private collection. Carus is publishing for the first time the parts of this work pased on the Schubert autograph. Ferdinand Schubert liked this work so much that he asked his brother to compose wind parts for it. Also the Carus-Edition publishes for the first time the complete facsimile of the first version.