Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto (repost)
Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion: With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto by Michael Marissen
English | April 30, 1998 | ISBN-10: 019511471X | 128 pages | PDF | 5,5 MB
English | April 30, 1998 | ISBN-10: 019511471X | 128 pages | PDF | 5,5 MB
Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of the powerful and highly emotional music and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments.
What did this masterpiece mean in Bach's day and what does it mean today?Although bibliographies on Bach and Judaism have grown enormously since World War II, there has been very little work on the relationship between the two areas.