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

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Georg Philipp Telemann notableWork Brockes-Passion