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Joh. Seb. Bach's Passions-Musik nach dem Evangelisten Matthäus. Vollständiger Klavier-Auszug bearbeitet von Fr. Ed. Wilsing. Eigenthum der Verleger. Subscr.-Pr. 3 Thlr. BWV 244. Piano-vocal score

1857Best.-Nr. 41241Berlin: Chez Ed. Bote & G. Bock. G. Bock Editeur de musique de S. Maj. le Roi et S.A.R. le Prince Albert de Prusse B. & B. 3698 1857. Folio. Half dark brown leather with black cloth boards decorative cut paper label titled in manuscript to upper. 1f. recto title verso blank 3-189 i blank pp. Title lithographed music engraved. Decorative series title "Collection Ouevres Classiques" incorporating floral motifs theatrical mask angel with lyre lute quill and names of composers. With occasional performance markings in pencil. Mostly minor occasionally moderate foxing primarily to margins; blank inner margins of title and first and last leaves of music reinforced with narrow strip of white paper tape. OCLC 916160097 one copy only at Baldwin Wallace University. Riemenschneider 1936. "On the whole the St Matthew Passion is a considerably more unified piece than the St John for which the primary reason is its use of Picander's text. Its greater textual and musical scale allows more space for the arias and 'madrigal' pieces in which the coupling of arioso with aria is an especially characteristic feature. Another special feature is the way the strings provide an accompanying 'halo' in Jesus's recitatives. The pervading cyclical formation of the work from the interrelating of the chorales tonal organization and paired movements is in some respects even more pronounced than in the St John Passion while it lacks the earlier work's 'architectural' centre. After 1729 the St Matthew Passion had at least two more performances under Bach's direction. In 1736 he made some important changes chief among them emphasizing the separation of the two choruses and orchestras by division of the continuo exchanging the simple chorale at the end of part i for 'O Mensch bewein' and replacing the lute in 'Komm süsses Kreuz' with bass viol. The additional alterations of about 1742 and 1746 were mainly a matter of meeting practical performing conditions." Christoph Wolff in Grove Music Online Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing 1809-1893 was a German Romantic composer highly regarded by Robert Schunmann. Chez Ed. Bote & G. Bock. G. Bock, Editeur de musique de S. Maj. le Roi et S.A.R. le Prince Albert de Prusse [B. & B. 3698] unknown