St. Lucas Passion (BWV 246)
Authenticity disputed
by Johann Sebastian Bach
4-Part - Sheet Music

Chorus (with soloists) and piano (solos: SSATT(T)BB - choir: SATB - 2.2.cor ang.0.1 - 0.0.0.0 - str - bc)

SKU: BR.EB-6574

Authenticity disputed. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Winfried Radeke. Arranged by Winfried Radeke. Choir; Softbound. Edition Breitkopf.

A heated debate about the authenticity of the present work broke out even before the first edition of 1887/88 in the old Bach-Gesamtausgabe was released. If that's by Sebastian, well I'll be hanged, wrote the Bach expert Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, a. Oratorio/passion; Baroque. Piano/Vocal Score. 112 pages. Duration 114'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 6574. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-6574).

ISBN 9790004167984. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

Is the St. Luke Passion an early work of Bach's or not? One should remember that in his Leipzig years, after having written the St. John and St. Matthew Passions , the composer still considered the music so remarkable that he personally copied out about half of the work for a performance in 1730 and then gave his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach the rest? Why else would Bach want to preserve the music if it had not been from his own pen?

A heated debate about the authenticity of the present work broke out even before the first edition of 1887/88 in the old Bach-Gesamtausgabe was released. "If that's by Sebastian, well I'll be hanged," wrote the Bach expert Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, although he was basing his judgment too one-sidedly on the St. Matthew Passion that he had awoken to new life.