MENDELSSOHN Passion Music after the Evangelist Matthew. Vocal score. Barenreiter

It is hard to imagine today that the music of J. S. Bach fell into oblivion for about half a century after the composer’s death. His successors at the Thomaskirche preferred simpler homophonic compositions, and by the beginning of the 19th century his music served only as a subject of academic study. The composer and teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter greatly appreciated Bach’s contrapuntal artistry and passed it on to his pupil Felix Mendelssohn who, by the age of twelve, had become a master of the art of the fugue. Two years later, the young Felix was to receive his most valuable gift, a hand-copied score of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. With Zelter at his side, he gave the first performance (since Bach’s death) in 1829 with musicians from the Berlin Singakademie. It was an ambitious undertaking, not only because of the complexity of Bach’s music, but also because of the unfamiliarity by that time with Baroque performance practice (size of instrumentation, Baroque instruments, ornamentation

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Aggiornato il 10/06/2026