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St. John's Passion

1695............................................................................................................................................2005

Reinhard Keiser

1674-1739

Primarily an opera composer

Composed a passion oratorio in 1704 on a text by...

19th Century

20th Century

Christan Postel

Poet of the added text to St John's Passion

Background

Pro- Handel

Paul Henry Lang

Karl Gustav Fellerer

Rainer Kleinertz (2003)

John H. Roberts

LAYS DOWN THE LAW

Friedrich Chrysander

Winton Dean

Edward D. Rendell Challenges this claim in 1905

Supported Handel's claim as composer

1858- St. John Passion included in biography of Handel

1860- St. John Passion published by German Handel Society

Hamburg 1703-1706

  • Almira (1704)
  • Nero (1704)
  • Der beglückte Florindo (1708)
  • Die verwandelte Daphne (1708)

"No one will certainly think of doubting its Handelian origin"

Non-Handel

1967- Hyatt King and Harald Kümmerling Georg Böhm

1976-Bernd Baselt Johann Mattheson

1980s- Several claims for Reinhard Keiser

1985- Hans Joachim Marx Christian Ritter 1695

Taryn Jackson

September 26, 2016

Johann Mattheson

...Inquiry of a Questioning Composer about a Certain Passion

"At the first opportunity to formulate and answer some 60 critical questions about composition in regard to this very work, so that many readers may thereby be served"

Georg Böhm

1681-1764

Composer and singer

Friend of Handel's

Important text in the Critica Musica in 1724 about another composer

1661-1733

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