Wikipedia's own article on Bach's Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, is a tertiary encyclopedic source. Its strength is that it lays out the compositional history plainly: the 1733 Kyrie and Gloria presented to the Elector of Saxony, the 1748 to 1749 assembly of the remaining movements near the end of Bach's life, and the documented first complete performance in Leipzig in 1859 under Karl Riedel. Its limit is the ordinary one for a crowd edited encyclopedia entry: useful for the outline of the work's own history, not a substitute for the specialist musicological literature on its compilation.
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Wikipedia's article on Bach's Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, is a tertiary encyclopedic source with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful here for the work's composition history. NotesEncyclopedic compositional history for BWV 232: the 1733 Kyrie and Gloria, the 1748 to 1749 assembly of the remaining movements, its status as Bach's last major undertaking, and the documented first complete performance in Leipzig in 1859 under Karl Riedel.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_B_minor
Source Typereference
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- Musical Works, 13 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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