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Moritz Brosig (1815–1887) was born in Lisie Kąty near Paczków in the Opole region. He was a composer, organ virtuoso, conductor, academic lecturer at the Royal Academic Institute of Church Music in Wrocław, honoris causa doctor of the University of Wrocław, Kapellmeister of the cathedral in Wrocław, royal music director and member of St. Cecilia’s Academy in Rome, and above all, a great defender of orchestral church music but with wise limitations. He was also an expert in the construction and renovation of pipe organs. In his creative output was placed as opus 31 the F minor / F major mass. It is also the fourth of nine cycles of ordinarium missae in the mass output of Brosig. The present work contains a source-critical edition of the notes of the Vierte-Messe based on the composer’s manuscript found in the collections of the Archdiocesan Archive and the Chapter Library in Wrocław.