page_title: Bach's Missa of 1733
section_title: Performance history before being integrated in the Mass in B minor, BWV 232
hierarchical_section_title: Bach's Missa of 1733 / History / Performance history before being integrated in the Mass in B minor, BWV 232
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Dresden Sophienkirche Lithographie
context_page_description: Bach's Missa of 1733, BWV 232 I, is a Kyrie–Gloria Mass in B minor, composed in 1733 by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is an extended missa brevis 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, 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.
  The composition, also known as Bach's Mass for the Dresden court, is an unusually extended work scored for five-part SSATB soloists and choir with an orchestra having a broad winds section.
context_section_description: It is debated if the Missa was performed at the time. If it was performed, the most likely venue was the Sophienkirche in Dresden, where Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann had been organist since June.
  Around 1745 Bach used three movements of the Gloria of the Missa of 1733 for his cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191.
caption: Sophienkirche, Dresden, possibly the location of a first performance
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