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    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...
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    congregation of Bach's contemporaries. Compared with the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion has been described as more extravagant, with an expressive...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion), BWV 244, is structured on multiple levels: the composition is structured in three levels...
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  • St Matthew Passion is a Passion setting composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 or 1729 St Matthew Passion structure St Matthew Passion may also refer...
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  • Sebastian Bach provided Passion music for Good Friday services in Leipzig. The extant St Matthew Passion and St John Passion are Passion oratorios composed...
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  • Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion) are shown below in a sortable table. The earliest recordings of the St Matthew Passion were released...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach (category Burials at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig)
    and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and choral works such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th century Bach Revival, he has...
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    on the Mount St Matthew Passion – an oratorio by J. S. Bach Textual variants in the Gospel of Matthew Shem Tob's Hebrew Gospel of Matthew The book is sometimes...
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    The structure of the St John Passion (German: Johannes-Passion), BWV 245, a sacred oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach first performed in Leipzig on Good...
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  • Saint Matthew Passion can refer to: St Matthew Passion, a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach Saint Matthew Passion (film), a 1966 documentary...
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    perform Bach's St Matthew Passion on Good Friday and has performed the work annually since then in the Grote of Sint-Vituskerk (Great Church or St Vitus Church)...
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  • England Passions (Bach), five settings of the Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach St John Passion, a 1724 setting of the Passion by J. S. Bach St Matthew Passion...
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    also completely identified with the role of the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion. His appearances at the Three Choirs Festivals, and at those of Peterborough...
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    passio. Accounts of the Passion are found in the four canonical gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Three of these, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, known as...
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  • However, a striking example may be found in the final bar of Bach's St Matthew Passion. The chord occurs on the first beat, but the sharp seventh (B natural)...
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    Bach's St Matthew Passion, the chorale "Herzliebster Jesu" makes its first appearance in a straightforward harmonisation: Later, as the Passion Story draws...
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  • "The Little Match Girl". It is influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion (1727) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2008. The first performance...
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    John (the St John Passion), the other on the Gospel of Matthew (the St Matthew Passion). Additionally, a libretto for the St Mark Passion survives. Although...
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    music of Johann Sebastian Bach, notably with his performance of the St Matthew Passion in 1829. He became well received in his travels throughout Europe...
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  • in an interview that he had been told his performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion sounded different from the one he had performed last year. He viewed...
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  • discussed below, the St. John Passion, and St Matthew Passion), Konrad Junghänel (Mass in B minor, several cantatas, St. John Passion, and the motets), Sigiswald...
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    (Switzerland). Alfeyev is author of numerous musical compositions. His St Matthew Passion, grand oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra, received a standing...
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  • Lucerne. Two Passions by Johann Sebastian Bach, St John's and St Matthew's, have been passed on to our days in both text and music. A third one, St Luke's,...
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  • the "mournful affect" of the sombre opening Chorus of J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion (1727) features the chord on the seventh beat of its first bar and...
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    Latter-day Saints. The melody as it appears in movement 54 of the St Matthew Passion by Bach: The music for the German and English versions of the hymn...
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    St Matthew Passion: BWV 244/3, /10, /15≈/17, /25, /32, /37, /40, /44, /46, /54 and /62 • 244b/29 Four-part chorales appearing in the St John Passion:...
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    middle of the chorus 'Have lightnings and thunders …' in Bach's St. Matthew Passion": After the pause, the music continues to the words: "Open up the...
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  • Street Blues/When It's Sleepy Time Down South" by Louis Prima (4:12) "St. Matthew Passion (Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder)" by Johann Sebastian Bach (Chicago...
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  • The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italian: Il vangelo secondo Matteo, lit. 'The Gospel according to Matthew') is a 1964 epic biblical drama film in...
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    material which also appeared in two surviving works, one being the St Matthew Passion, it has been possible to make reconstructions. The cantata is in 24...
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