Bach: St. Lucas Passion, BWV 246
Authenticity disputed
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- Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Format: Vocal Score
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Double Choir (SATB + SATB)
- Originally for: Orchestra, Double Choir (SATB + SATB)
- Work: St. Lucas Passion, BWV 246
- Work Language: German
- ISMN:
- Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
- Pages: 112
Description
A heated debate about the authenticity of the present work broke out even before the first edition of 1887/88 in the old Bach-Gesamtausgabe was released. "If that's by Sebastian, well I'll be hanged," wrote the Bach expert Felix, although he was basing his judgment too one-sidedly on the St. Matthew Passion that he had awoken to new life.
Is the St. Luke Passion an early work of Bach's or not? One should remember that in his Leipzig years, after having written the St. John and St. Matthew Passions , the composer still considered the music so remarkable that he personally copied out about half of the work for a performance in 1730 and then gave his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach the rest? Why else would Bach want to preserve the music if it had not been from his own pen?
Bach: St. Lucas Passion, BWV 246
