Lichtenthal Church. Franz Schubert,

Lichtenthal Church. Franz Schubert, Austrian composer, was baptised in the Lichtenthal church on 1 February 1797. It was here he received his first musical training. In 1814, at age 17, he was commissioned to compose a missa solemnis for the centenary of the church, his first mass in F major. He conducted its first performance on 25 September 1814. His later masses in G major, B-flat major and C major were also composed for Lichtenthal Church, as well as other sacred music. The building was probably designed by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Andrea Pozzo; opened in 1730. The high neo-Classical altar was created in 1776 by court architect Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg, showing the Fourteen Holy Helpers; frescoes by Franz Zoller and Franz Sigrist; the Baroque side altars contain paintings by famous artists such as Leopold Kupelwieser.