Bach's St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century

Download or read book Bach's St. John Passion for the Twenty-First Century written by Michael Fuchs and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using a contemporary lens, this book focuses on how J.S. Bach used his compositional creativity to interpret the message of the Johannine passion narrative from a Lutheran perspective and provides a new translation of the libretto. It provides a brief historical context, important points of theological scholarship, and performance history"--