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11 janvier 2019
- handle: 10670/1.gfzvs3
- isbn: 9781783743636
- eisbn: 9791036516634
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Hans Walter Gabler, « 14. Johann Sebastian Bach’s two-Choir Passion », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.gfzvs3
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In his obituary of Johann Sebastian Bach written in the year 1754, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ascribes to his father five Passions, ‘including one with two choirs’. The two choirs of the St Matthew Passion have their roots in the traditions of antiphonal psalmody, handed down over centuries. From this, Bach derived a comprehensive principle of doubling in musical composition. We know that each of the two choirs he deployed had its own soloists, following the practice of Leipzig church music. T...