In his accomplishments as a conductor, composer, and musical administrator, Johann Herbeck had a significant effect on musical culture in the city of Vienna that was all the more remarkable because his professional career lasted only twenty-five years. During his relatively short lifetime (1831–77) he held positions of leadership in the most important Viennese musical organizations of the period and became famous for his conducting. His musical talents are also demonstrated in a sizeable repertoire of his own compositions: starting with songs for voice and piano early in his career, he went on in his mature years to compose instrumental works and a large body of choral settings of secular German and sacred Latin texts. Herbeck’s Mass in E Minor, a significant composition in the last category, is presented in this edition.