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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 ...
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]
BWV 245 – St John Passion (Johannes-Passion), various versions, including: [24] St. John Passion, 2nd version, with opening chorus "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß" (1725), BDW 00308, containing: BWV 245a – Aria "Himmel reiße, Welt erbebe" BWV 245b – Aria "Zerschmettert mich, ihr Felsen und ihr Hügel" BWV 245c – Aria "Ach, windet ...
The St John Passion, BWV 245 is the first Passion Bach composed during his tenure as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, a tenure that started after the Easter season of 1723. Apart from the German translation of parts of the Gospel of St John and several Lutheran chorales, it used text of the Brockes Passion for its arias.
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.
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 ...
"Passion Chorale" by Hans Leo Hassler, harmonized by Johann Sebastian Bach " O Sacred Head, Now Wounded " is a Christian Passion hymn based on a Latin text written during the Middle Ages . Paul Gerhardt wrote a German version which is known by its incipit , " O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden ".