Mass in B Minor in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)

By Johann Sebastian Bach.

Mass in B Minor in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)

Description

The B Minor Mass, a cornerstone of Western music, is a composition of truly monumental dimensions, one that occupied Bach intermittently from the 1720s to the 1740s, and the work often regarded as the crowning glory of the great composer's lifework in the field of sacred music. First conceived as a Lutheran Mass ― essentially a setting of the Kyrie and Gloria performed at the beginning of the principal service ― the work was later enlarged with a Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei to conform to the structure of the Roman Mass ordinary. But in its final form this majestic work proved too lon...

ISBN(s)

0486259927, 9780486259925

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