ExclusiveBach: La passion Selon Saint Matthieu - 1st Partie - 4 (St Matthew Passion)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Johann Sebastian Bach: La passion Selon Saint Matthieu - 1st Partie - 4. This beautiful piece was preserved by European Archive. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

Very little is known for certain about the creation process of the St Matthew Passion. Available information comes from surviving early manuscripts, contemporary publications of the libretto and circumstantial data in documents archived by the Town Council of Leipzig, for example.

At the time, only men sang in church and high-pitched vocal parts were usually performed by treble choristers. In 1730, Bach informed the Leipzig Town Council of his recommended number of singers for the churches under his responsibility, including St Thomas's: a choir of twelve singers, plus an additional eight to serve both St Thomas's and the Peterskirche. The Town Council only partially granted the request, so possibly some Passion presentations at St Thomas's were performed with fewer than twenty singers, even for large-scale works like the St Matthew Passion that were written for double choir.

The St Matthew Passion was probably first performed on 11 April (Good Friday) in 1727 at St Thomas's Church, and again on 15 April 1729, 30 March 1736 and 23 March 1742. Bach revised it again between 1743 and 1746.

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