Bach cantata her company in staged productions, "The Peasant Cantata" and "The Coffee Cantata". In 1931 a recording was made of a performance of , in Barcelona. The number of performances and recordings increased in the decades after the Second World War. In the early 1950s Fritz Lehmann recorded several cantatas with the Berliner Motettenchor and the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1953, Max Thurn conducted for the broadcaster NDR a series of Bach cantatas, with members of the NDR Chor and members of the NDR Sinfonieorchester. Karl Richter called his choir programmatically Münchener Bach-Chor in 1954 and recorded about a third of the
Mass for the Dresden court (Bach) lifetime. After reusing some of its music in a cantata he composed around 1745 (BWV 191), Bach finally incorporated this Kyrie–Gloria Mass as first part of four in his Mass in B minor, composed/assembled in the last years of his life, around 1748–1749. The Kyrie–Gloria Mass for the Dresden court was not assigned a separate number in the BWV catalogue, but in order to distinguish it from the later complete mass (), numbers like ' and are in use. In 2005 Bärenreiter published the 1733 version of the Missa as ', in the Neue Bach-Ausgabe series. The work is also