St Matthew Passion Vocal Score
Vocal Scores for Bach's St Matthew Passion
St Matthew Passion is the second of two passion settings by Bach that have been hugely popular in classical music.
The most popular vocal scores for Bach's St Matthew Passion are shown below.
Rehearsal recordings to help learn your voice part (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) are described below.
Full video version to hear the work in full is also below
The Novello edition is in English and German and is edited by Neil Jenkins for solo and SATB
Catalogue Number:NOV072478
ISBN:9780853608028
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The Edition Peters Version of Bach's St Matthew Passion is in English for SATB
Catalogue Number:EP7999
ISMN:9790577087726
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The Barenreiter edition of Bach's St Matthew Passion
Catalogue Number: BA5038-90
ISMN: 9790006462421
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The St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, (German: Matthäus-Passion), is a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici). It sets chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew to music, with interspersed chorales and arias. It is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of classical sacred music, indeed, of all Western music. The original Latin title Passio Domini Nostri J.C. Secundum Evangelistam Matthaeum translates to: The Suffering of our Lord J.C. after the Evangelist Matthew. It is rendered in English also as St. Matthew Passion and in German also as Matthäuspassion.
Although Bach wrote four (or five) settings of the Passion only two have survived; the other is the St John Passion. The St Matthew Passion was probably first performed on Good Friday (11 April) 1727 in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, where Bach was the Kapellmeister. He revised it by 1736, performing it again on 30 March 1736, this time including two organs in the instrumentation.
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