Anyone knew Handel wrote a St John’s Passion?

Anyone knew Handel wrote a St John’s Passion?

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norman lebrecht

July 06, 2018

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Did you know Handel wrote a St John’s Passion? Me, neither, and I’m still not convinced….

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  • barry guerrero says:
    July 7, 2018 at 12:24 am

    You can hear all sorts of excerpts from it on Youtube.

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=handel+st.+john+passion

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    • steven holloway says:
      July 7, 2018 at 2:51 pm

      Indeed. And there has been much written about its provenance, though I am thinking mainly of articles and papers by musicologists, and thus unlikely to be known to anti-musicological SD. And so comes about the assumption — “me neither” — that we are all just as unaware of the work, just as ignorant of what can be known about it.

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