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Book/Printed Material Missa in B Minor ("Kyrie" and "Gloria" of the B Minor Mass). B minor Missa (Kyrie and Gloria)

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Title

  • Missa in B Minor ("Kyrie" and "Gloria" of the B Minor Mass).

Other Title

  • B minor Missa (Kyrie and Gloria)

Summary

  • In 1733, following the death of August the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685--1750) applied to the ruler's son and successor, Frederick August II, for a court title. Bach's petition eventually was successful, and in 1736 he was named Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Court Composer. Bach had bolstered his application by submitting a missa brevis (brief mass, consisting of Kyrie and Gloria) dedicated to Frederick August. This work, the Missa in B Minor, which Bach with deliberate unpretentiousness characterized as "an insignificant product of the skill I have attained in music," was nothing less than the nucleus of one of his masterpieces, the famed B Minor Mass BWV 232. Not until 1749, the year before his death, did Bach finish augmenting the 1733 Missa to form what his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach called this "Great Catholic Mass" by adding the missing movements. The composer and music publisher Hans Georg Nägeli considered the B Minor Mass, already in 1818, "the greatest musical art work of all times and nations." The 1733 work presented here is in 21 parts, predominantly in Bach's own hand.

Names

  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 Composer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1733.

Headings

  • -  Germany
  • -  1733
  • -  Masses
  • -  Musical scores
  • -  Prayers

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Shelfmark: Mus. 2405-D-21"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 142 pages ; 35 x 21 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Saxon State and University Library, Dresden.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667915

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  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bach, Johann Sebastian, Composer. Missa in B Minor "Kyrie" and "Gloria" of the B Minor Mass. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1733] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667915/.

APA citation style:

Bach, J. S. (1733) Missa in B Minor "Kyrie" and "Gloria" of the B Minor Mass. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667915/.

MLA citation style:

Bach, Johann Sebastian, Composer. Missa in B Minor "Kyrie" and "Gloria" of the B Minor Mass. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1733] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667915/>.