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Brockes Passion (Handel)

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Händel c. 1710

The Brockes Passion, or Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus (English: The Story of Jesus, Suffering and Dying for the Sins of the World),[1] is a German oratorio, libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, first published in 1712 and seeing 30 or so more editions over the following 15 years.

The most famous musical setting of Brockes' text is that by George Frideric Handel, HWV 48. The text was also set by Reinhard Keiser (1712), Georg Philipp Telemann (1716), Johann Mattheson (1718), Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1725), Johann Friedrich Fasch (1723) and several other composers.

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Brockes' text

Engraved portrait of Brockes (1744) by Christian Fritsch (1704–1760)
Main article: Brockes Passion

Barthold Heinrich Brockes was an influential German poet who re-worked the traditional form of a Passion oratorio, adding reflective and descriptive poetry, sometimes of a highly-wrought and emotional kind, into the texture of his Passion. The Brockes Passion was much admired and set to music numerous times in Baroque Germany, although to other ages and in other countries some of Brockes' poetry has seemed in poor taste.[2]: 133  In Brockes' version of a passion, a tenor Evangelist narrates, in recitative passages, events from all four Gospels' accounts of Jesus' suffering and death. Persons of the Gospel story (Jesus, Peter, Pilate, and so on) have dialogue passages, also in recitative; a chorus sings passages depicting the declamation of crowds; and poetic texts, sometimes in the form of arias, sometimes that of chorales, reflect on the events.[2]: 132  Some of the arias are for the persons of the Passion, Jesus himself, Peter, etc., but Mary the mother of Jesus also has a singing part, and fictitious "characters", the Daughter of Zion, four solo Believing Souls, and A Chorus of Believing Souls, also observe and comment.[2]: 132 

Handel's setting

Since 1712 the German-born Handel had been resident in London. It is not known exactly why or when Handel set the text of the Brockes Passion, already used by numerous other composers, to music, but it is known that the work was performed in Hamburg in 1719.[3]

Handel's Brockes Passion is "an entirely worthy contribution to the repertory of its genre." It is a lengthy and contemplative work for vocal soloists, choir and instrumental ensemble with some passages of great beauty, such as the duet for Mary and her son. The few choruses, perhaps surprisingly in view of Handel's later large scale choral works, are short and perfunctory in comparison with the arias, some of which are in an operatic style, others with simple accompaniment of solo oboe or obbligato violin.[4]

Johann Sebastian Bach was influenced by the work in his St John Passion.[4] In the last decade of his life Bach used seven arias of Handel's Brockes Passion in a St Mark Passion pastiche, and even performed it in his own arrangement in 1746.[5]

Recordings

References

  1. ^ ""Brockes" – Classical Sheffield". Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
  2. ^ a b c Smither, Howard E. (1977). A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807812945.
  3. ^ "G. F. Handel's Compositions". www.gfhandel.org. The Handel Institute. Archived from the original on 24 September 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  4. ^ a b Burrows, Donald (2012). Handel (Master Musicians Series). Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition. p. 129. ISBN 978-0199737369.
  5. ^ Bach Digital Work 01680 at www.bachdigital.de
  6. ^ "Handel: Brockes Passion CD". aam.co.uk. Academy of Ancient Music. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Handel: Brockes Passion CD (label webpage)". outhere-music.com. Alpha-Classics. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Handel: Brockes Passion CD (media and info webpage with front cover and booklet download)". chandos.net. Chandos. Retrieved 13 March 2021.

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