title: Johann Baal
text: # Johann Baal
  
  Johann Baal also Pater Marianus Baal (18 December 1657 in Karlstadt – 1701) was a German composer. Baal was attached to the court of the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg. Among Baal's surviving works is a Mass in A, the five sections of which survive in the handwriting of a copy by Johann Sebastian Bach and his cousin Johann Gottfried Walther.
  
  ## Recordings
  
  * Mass in A. Instrumental works. Musica Canterey Bamberg, dir. Gerhard Weinzierl 1997
  