Brockes-Passion

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The Brockes-Passion is a Baroque oratorio setting of Barthold Heinrich Brockes’s Passion libretto, best known through Georg Philipp Telemann’s dramatic and expressive musical version.

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instanceOf Baroque oratorio
Passion oratorio
sacred vocal work
associatedCity Hamburg
associatedComposer Georg Philipp Telemann
George Frideric Handel
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Johann Mattheson
Reinhard Keiser
basedOn Gospel Passion narratives
dramaticFocus emotional meditation on Christ’s suffering
dramaticStyle contemplative
highly expressive
genre oratorio
hasCharacter Daughter of Zion
Evangelist
Faithful Soul
Jesus
Mary
Peter
Pilate
linked to: Pontius Pilate
hasLibrettist Barthold Heinrich Brockes
historicalEra early 18th century
influenced German Passion oratorio tradition
language German
liturgicalContext Holy Week
notableSettingBy Georg Philipp Telemann
George Frideric Handel
Johann Friedrich Fasch
Johann Mattheson
Reinhard Keiser
performanceForces choir
orchestra
vocal soloists
period Baroque
religiousTradition Christianity
structureFeature arias
chorales
choruses
recitatives
subject Passion of Jesus Christ
linked to: Passion of Jesus
textAuthor Barthold Heinrich Brockes
textAuthorBirthPlace Hamburg
textPublicationCentury 18th century
textStyle poetic paraphrase of the Passion story
textType Passion libretto

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Georg Philipp Telemann notableWork Brockes-Passion