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	{{Infobox Bach composition
	\| title = {{lang\|la\|Missa}}
	\| noitalic = y
	\| bwv = 232a
	\| type = ]
	\| image = Dresden Sophienkirche Lithographie.jpg
	\| caption = ], possibly the location of the first performance
	\| related = {{Plainlist \|
	* base for ]
	* base for ]
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	\| composed = {{Timeline-event\|date={{Start date\|1733}}\|location=]}}
	\| performed = {{Timeline-event\|date={{Start date\|1733}}\|location=]}}
	\| text = ] and ]
	\| movements = 12 in 2 parts (3, 9)
	\| vocal = ] choir and solo
	\| instrumental = {{hlist \| 3 ]s \| ] \| ] \| 2 ] \| 2 ]s \| 2 ] \| 2 ]s \| 2 ]s \| ] \| ] }}
	}}

	The '''Missa''' in ], '''BWV 232a''', by ] is a setting of two parts of the Latin ], '']'' and '']''. Bach composed the two sections, each in several movements, in ] in 1733 for the court in ]. It is also known as '''''Missa 1733'''''. Bach later derived cantata ], from three movements of the ''Gloria'' (1745) and included both ''Kyrie'' and ''Gloria'' unchanged into his ], BWV 232.

	== History ==

	Bach was a ] church musician, devoted to the composition of sacred music in German. He wrote more than 200 ]s for the liturgy, most of them in ]. In 1724 he composed a ] for Christmas, which he later integrated into his ].<ref name="steinitz" /> In 1733 he composed a '']'', a setting of '']'' and '']'', for the court of Dresden, the ''Kyrie'' as a lament for the death of ], King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, who had died on 1 February 1733 (he had been received into the ] in order to ascend the throne of Poland in 1697.) The ''Gloria'' was to celebrate his successor, later ]. Bach presented parts of the works to Augustus with a note dated 27 July 1733, in the hope of obtaining the title, "Electoral Saxon Court Composer", complaining that he had "innocently suffered one injury or another" in ].<ref>An English translation of the letter is given in Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, ''The Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents'', W. W. Norton & Company, 1945, p. 128. (Also in "The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents" revised by Christoph Wolff, W. W. Norton & Co Inc, 1998, ISBN 978-0-393-04558-1 , p. 158.)</ref> The works were performed in 1733, most likely at the Sophienkirche in Dresden, where Bach's son ] had been organist since June,<ref>The details added in this section are from Christoph Wolff "Bach", III, 7 (§8), '']'' ed., L. Macy. http://www.grovemusic.com/ . Last accessed August 9, 2007.</ref> though not in the presence of their dedicatees.

	Later, Bach used three movements of this ] to compose his cantata ], possibly for a performance in 1745.<ref name="steinitz" /> Bach integrated the complete Missa unchanged in his Mass in B minor, his only complete mass (or ''missa tota'').<ref name="laurson" /> Scoring and structure are identical with the later work.

	Bach described the piece as "an insignificant product of the skill I have attained in music." ] described the work, in 1818, as "the greatest musical art work of all times and nations."<ref name="WDL">{{cite web \|url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11619/ \|title = Missa in B Minor ("Kyrie" and "Gloria" of the B Minor Mass) \|website = ] \|year = 1733 \|accessdate = 2013-08-08 }}</ref>

	== References ==
	{{reflist
	\| refs =

	<ref name="steinitz">
	{{cite web
	\| last = Steinitz
	\| first = Margaret
	\| url = http://www.aucx96.dsl.pipex.com/Lbsdb/LBSDB_LC_INTRO.html
	\| title = Bach's Latin Church Music
	\| accessdate = 16 September 2010
	\| publisher = ]
	}}
	</ref>

	<ref name="laurson">
	{{cite web
	\| last = Laurson
	\| first = Jens F.
	\| url = http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/Aug09/Bach_Missa_2564690571.htm
	\| title = Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) / Missa (1733)
	\| publisher = musicweb-international.com
	\| year = 2009
	\| accessdate = 12 February 2013
	}}
	</ref>

	}}

	== Sources ==

	* {{IMSLP2\|id=Mass in B minor, BWV 232 (Bach, Johann Sebastian)\|Mass in B minor, BWV 232}}
	* : history, scoring, sources for text and music, translations to various languages, discography, discussion, ''bach-cantatas'' website

	== External links ==
	* kulturradio.de 10 February 2013

	{{Johann Sebastian Bach}}
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