h-Moll-Messe, BWV 232
Bach's Missa of 1733, BWV 232 I (early version), is a Kyrie–Gloria Mass in B minor, composed in 1733 by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is an extended missa brevis (German: Kurzmesse, lit. 'short Mass') consisting of a Kyrie in three movements and a Gloria in nine movements. Bach started to compose it, partly based on earlier work, after the death of his sovereign Augustus the Strong (1 February 1733), dedicating it to the latter's son and successor, Frederick August II, in a letter dated 27 July 1733. At the time, Bach was in his tenth year as Lutheran church musician in Leipzig, while the Catholic court of the sovereign Elector of Saxony was located in Dresden. Bach sent performance parts of his Missa to Dresden while he kept the autograph score in Leipzig. Upon arrival in Dresden, the Mass was not added to the repertoire of the Catholic court chapel, but instead the parts, and Bach's dedication letter, were archived in the sovereign's library.
Movements
- Missa: I. Kyrie eleison
- Missa: II. Christe eleison
- Missa: III. Kyrie eleison
- Missa: IV. Gloria in excelsis Deo
- Missa: V. Et in terra pax
- Missa: VI. Laudamus te
- Missa: VII. Gratias agimus tibi
- Missa: VIII. Domine Deus
- Missa: IX. Qui tollis peccata mundi
- Missa: X. Qui sedes ad dextram Patris
- Missa: XI. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
- Missa: XII. Cum Sancto Spiritu
- Symbolum Nicenum: I. Credo in unum Deum
- Symbolum Nicenum: II. Patrem omnipotentem
- Symbolum Nicenum: III. Et in unum Dominum
- Symbolum Nicenum: IV. Et incarnatus est
- Symbolum Nicenum: V. Crucifixus
- Symbolum Nicenum: VI. Et resurrexit
- Symbolum Nicenum: VII. Et in Spiritum Sanctum Dominum
- Symbolum Nicenum: VIII. Confiteor
- Symbolum Nicenum: IX. Et expecto
- Sanctus
- Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: I. Osanna in excelsis
- Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: II. Benedictus
- Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: III. Osanna repetatur
- Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: IV. Agnus Dei
- Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Dona nobis pacem: V. Dona nobis pacem
Recommended recordings
- Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists · John Eliot Gardiner YouTubeSpotify (subscription)
- Munich Bach Choir & Orchestra · Karl Richter YouTubeSpotify (subscription)