jan 1, 1749 - Mass in b minor BWV 232

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an extended setting of the Mass ordinary by Johann Sebastian Bach. The composition was completed in 1749, the year before the composer's death, and was to a large extent based on earlier work.

Bach’s “Testaments”
1. Bach’s most familiar religious works are the large-scale works: Passions and the Mass
in B Minor, which became part of the concert repertory in the nineteenth century.

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