The Missa solemnis, WAB 29, is a solemn mass composed by Anton Bruckner in 1854 for the installation of Friedrich Mayer [de] as abbot of St. Florian Monastery on 14 September 1854.

In spite of many beautiful details, multiple influences afford the work some heterogeneity in which J. S. Bach's technique of the fugue is "amalgamated" with elements of the Viennese Classical and Preclassical periods, and of the early Romantic (Schubert).

[7] As in Bruckner's later great masses, the setting of the words Et resurrexit is preceded by the "old-fashioned rhetorical gesture" of a "rising chromatic figure in stile agitato representing the trembling of the earth".

Several passages of the Missa solemnis, particularly the Qui tollis of the Gloria and the central part of the Credo, prefigure Bruckner's next Mass No.

[9][11] On 25 June 2017 a new edition of the score by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs, prepared for the Anton Bruckner Urtext Gesamtausgabe,[12] was premiered by Łukasz Borowicz with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Rickenbacher delivers a recording with excellent sound, Jürgens always seems to be aware of the fact that he is performing a mass in which praise and humility complement each other − Both on a high musical level.

Moreover, an attempt has been made to partially reconstruct the musical program of the Inauguration Mass for prelate Friedrich Theophil Mayer, which took place on 14 September 1854 in St.