1727
St. Matthew Passion/Composed

Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion was first heard on Good Friday, 1727 in Leipzig, Germany. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his St. Matthew Passion for a single purpose — to present the Passion story in music at Good Friday vesper services.

How many passions Bach composed?

five Passions
He composed four perhaps five Passions (the others have been lost), and he more or less alternated performing them over the years (and revised them as well). The interior of St. Thomaskirche, Leipzig, where J. S. Bach was cantor for 27 years.

What vocal part predominates in the St. Matthew Passion?

Free verse. Picander wrote text for recitatives and arias, and for the large scale choral movements that open and close the Passion. Other libretto sections came from publications by Salomo Franck and Barthold Heinrich Brockes.

Did Bach write a St Mark Passion?

*It’s worth noting that although only two of Bach’s Passions survive (St. Matthew and St. John), his obituary indicates that he wrote five, including a St. Luke Passion (the authenticity of which is more than doubtful) and a lost work from his time as Konzertmeister in Weimar.

Did Bach write a St Luke Passion?

The St Luke Passion (German: Lukas-Passion), BWV 246, is a Passion setting formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. It is included in the BWV catalog under the number 246.

What type of music is the St Matthew Passion?

St Matthew Passion. The St Matthew Passion (German: Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244, is a Passion, a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander.

What is Bach’s St Matthew Passion score?

Title page of Bach’s autograph score of the St Matthew Passion. The St Matthew Passion (German: Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244, is a Passion, a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander.

Was ist der St Matthew Passion?

Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder The St Matthew Passion is the second of two Passion settings by Bach that have survived in their entirety, the first being the St John Passion]

How did Leonard Bernstein introduce the St Matthew Passion?

Excerpts of the work were performed on the American television program Omnibus on 31 March 1957 in the episode “The Music of J.S. Bach.”. The presenter and explicator was Leonard Bernstein, who introduced the St Matthew Passion as “that glorious work that started me off on my own private passion for Bach.”.