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The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion [a] (German: Johannes-Passion), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach. [1] It was written during his first year as director of church music in Leipzig and was first performed on 7 April 1724, at Good Friday Vespers at the St ...
Bach's St John Passion contains an alto aria beginning with this line, as a summary immediately after the death of Jesus. The closing chorale of the cantata is the last of 33 stanzas of Paul Stockmann's "Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod" (1633). [2] [6] Bach probably first performed the cantata on 27 February 1729, or possibly earlier. [2] [9]
The seventh chorale, movement 22, is the central movement of the whole Passion, which interrupts the conversation of Pilate and the crowd by a general statement of the importance of the passion for salvation: "Durch dein Gefängnis, Gottes Sohn, ist uns die Freiheit kommen" (Through your prison, Son of God, must come to us our freedom) [8] [22 ...
Bach's setting is remarkable for its final two bars: the trumpets and timpani create a "magnificent blaze of sound". [2] Bach chose the same stanza of Schalling's chorale to end his St John Passion, in the work's first and last version. [5]
The Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe (BGA, Bach Gesellschaft edition) kept the chorale settings that were part of a larger vocal work (cantata, motet, Passion or oratorio) together with these larger vocal works and added the Three Wedding Chorales to its 13th volume containing wedding cantatas. The remaining separate four-part chorales, purged from ...
The St Matthew Passion and the St John Passion were intended to be performed on Good Friday, before and after the sermon. The six parts of the Christmas Oratorio were intended to be performed on six feast days of the Christmas season, each part composed as a cantata with an opening chorus (except in Part 2) and a closing chorale.
The tradition of the German oratorio Passion began in Hamburg in 1643 with Thomas Selle’s St John Passion and continued unbroken until the death of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in 1788. The oratorio Passion, made famous by Johann Sebastian Bach in his St John Passion and St Matthew Passion , is the style that is most familiar to the modern listener.
The Johannespassion (St John Passion), "Der Fromme stirbt", HoWV 1.4, is a Passion scored for five soloists, a four-part choir SATB and orchestra. [12] The final movement has a transition from A minor to a "celebratory" A major, in keeping with John's interpretation of the crucifixion as a victory. [6] C. P. E.