Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191

Gloria in excelsis Deo
BWV 191
Church cantata by J. S. Bach
Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, 1740s
RelatedGloria of Missa, BWV 232 I (early version)
OccasionChristmas
TextGloria, Doxology
Performed25 December 1742 (1742-12-25): Paulinerkirche, Leipzig
Movements3
Vocal
Instrumental

Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the Highest), BWV 191, is a church cantata written by the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and the only one of his church cantatas set to a Latin text. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig probably in 1742, for a celebration by the university of Leipzig.[1][2] The composition's three movements all derive from the Gloria of Bach's 1733 Kyrie–Gloria Mass, which the composer would later use as the Gloria of his Mass in B minor.[3]

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