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masses included interpolations with Czech text. Ryba did not identify this mass in his list of compositions created from 1782 to 1798, mentioning rather only "seven pastoral masses, one of them in Czech." The autograph manuscript was lost; today only the title page is preserved intact. Some parts of the composition were performed separately as
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Ryba composed his most famous work in 1796, a year after he managed to resolve a dispute over his teaching methods with the priest Kašpar Zachar. He wrote the music to a Czech libretto of his own devising; It was his only "mass" composed to a Czech text, although several of his earlier pastoral
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through characters representative of the Czech countryside. Its early performance history is little studied, but over time the composition achieved an extraordinary popularity among Czechs at home and abroad, a veritable musical symbol of the Czech celebration of
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in 1796, a mass in name only and thus an anomalous example of its genre (Missa pastoralis, less often Missa pastoritia). Because of its opening words, it is also known as
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