Most of Johann Sebastian Bach's extant church music in Latin—settings of (parts of) the Mass ordinary and of the Magnificat canticle—dates from his Leipzig...

based on work by Telemann. Bach wrote hundreds of four-part harmonisations of Lutheran chorales. Bach's church music in Latin includes the Magnificat, four...

however most likely composed by Bach. See #BWV Chapter 3 in the table above Bach's involvement with Latin church music, as composer, arranger or copyist...

Most of Bach's church cantatas date from his first years as Thomaskantor and director of church music in Leipzig, a position which he took up in 1723. Working...

outside Bach's usual routine for liturgical music. Bach was not the first to include mixed German/Latin Christmas interpolations in a Magnificat sung in Latin:...

Bach’s influence on Mozart was so grand that the theme of the slow movement of Mozart’s Concerto K414 contains a reference to the overture of Bach’s opera...

Church music is Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing...

(Palestrina), a 1570 work by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Bach's church music in Latin#Separate movements, copies, and arrangements List of masses by...

Bach composed both church cantatas, most of them for specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas. Bach's earliest...

In Christian music, a Passion is a setting of the Passion of Christ. Liturgically, most Passions were intended to be performed as part of church services...

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...

of Bach's chamber music compositions]. In Schulze, Hans-Joachim; Wolff, Christoph (eds.). Bach-Jahrbuch 1979 [Bach Yearbook 1979]. Bach-Jahrbuch (in German)...

Sebastian Bach composed cantatas for both secular and sacred use. His church cantatas are cantatas which he composed for use in the Lutheran church, mainly...

War, Unlike Bach's other church cantatas, the words are not in German, taken from the Bible, a chorale or contemporary poetry, but in Latin, taken from...

as in Penderecki's Polish Requiem. or SSATB, with divided sopranos, which is a typical scoring in English church music.: 322  A listing for Bach's Mass...

today. Bach's organ preludes are quite diverse, drawing on both southern and northern German influences. Most of Bach's preludes were written in the theme...

Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. It is based on Albert Emil Brachvogel's novel Friedemann Bach. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is shown as a...

by C.F. Peters in 1997, uses two copies of the 1748–50 manuscript made before C.P.E. Bach's adulterations to try to reconstruct Bach's original readings...

compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–36 and published in 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work for...

under Bach's supervision: many of these works, such as cantatas and Passions, include four-part chorales Three Wedding Chorales autograph Bach's autograph...

In music, a dictum (Latin 'something that has been said'; plural dicta) is a type of libretto for a church cantata consisting of quotes from sacred scripture...

Steinitz. "Bach's Latin Church Music". London Bach Society. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2010. (in German) Schmieder...

Christmas period, was not uncommon in Bach's day: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, whose church music was not unknown to Bach and Leipzig churchgoers, had composed...

as Bach's "first-known attempt at painting narrative in music". Christ lag in Todes Banden is a chorale cantata, a style in which both text and music are...

Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was...

of Bach's liturgical designation, the performance can be precisely dated to 2 December 1714. As Thomaskantor, director of music of the main churches of...

[Bach's editing of works by other composers: observations regarding the musical manuscripts from his library, with a particular focus on Latin church music]...

E. Bach's most preferred instrument.[page needed] C. P. E. Bach also used the fortepiano in his compositions, but he was much more interested in the...

Sebastian Bach's chorale cantata cycle is the year-cycle of church cantatas he started composing in Leipzig from the first Sunday after Trinity in 1724. It...

Soli Deo gloria is a Latin term for Glory to God alone. It has been used by artists like Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Christoph...