Johann Baal Explained

Johann Baal also Pater Marianus Baal (18 December 1657 in Karlstadt – 1701) was a German composer.^{[1] [2]} Baal was attached to the court of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg. Among Baal's surviving works is a Mass in A, the five sections of which survive in the handwriting of a copy by Johann Sebastian Bach and his cousin Johann Gottfried Walther.^[3]

Recordings

• Mass in A. Instrumental works. Musica Canterey Bamberg, dir. Gerhard Weinzierl 1997

Notes and References

1. Rhabanus Erbacher: Johann (P. Marianus) Baal. Skizzen zum Leben und Schaffen des Komponisten und zum höfischen und klösterlichen Umkreis seines Wirkens. Münsterschwarzach 1990, Vier-Türme-Verlag, .
2. Web site: Musik am Hofe Bamberger Fürstbischöfe vol.5 ; musik am hofe bamberger fürstbischöfe ; vol.5 - Johann Baal - Muziekweb.
3. Richard D. P. Jones -The Creative Development of Johann Sebastian Bach, 2013 "As early as the Weimar period, however, he and his cousin J. G. Walther had copied out a 'Missa tota'—all five divisions of the Mass Ordinary—by Johann Baal."