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) 1745 Bach used three movements of the Gloria of this Missa for his cantata "Gloria in excelsis Deo", BWV 191. In the last years of his life, presumably around 1748–1749, Bach integrated the complete Missa unchanged in his Mass in B minor, his only complete mass (or "missa tota"). Scoring and structure are identical with the later work, but markings differ because the parts contain more details than the 1733 score which he kept. Bach made changes to that score when he completed the mass. The work is scored for five vocal parts, two sopranos, alto, tenor and bass, and