St Mark Passion (Bach)
The St. Mark Passion, BWV 247, is an oratorio Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, who has the passion and death of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel according to Mark on the topic. While the libretto of Picander in a collection of poems is completely preserved, the music is considered lost, as opposed to the completely preserved St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion; the St. Luke Passion is not authentic as much as possible.
The St. Mark Passion was premiered on Good Friday in Leipzig on 23 March 1731. It has recently been demonstrated also that Bach himself has listed this passion at least once, namely on Good Friday in 1744, in a revised version (late version). For this purpose, he added in addition to the change of small text passages added two more arias.
Although the music is lost, the work can be reconstructed by the fully preserved libretto of the early version of 1731 and the later version from 1744 up to a certain degree. In contrast to the other two authentic obtained passions the St. Mark Passion was probably a parody, ie, Resist Bach used sets of previously composed works again, for example, two sacred cantatas ( but of sin, BWV 54; Let Princess, let still a beam, BWV 198). Two chorales from the St. Mark Passion were reused in the Christmas Oratorio. So, however, are still missing a few arias, which are taken from other works of Bach in reconstruction experiments. However, the recitatives are missing, so some reconstruction experiments use the recitatives of Mark's passions by other composers, ascribed eg Reinhard Keiser. Bach himself led the Keiser attributed Passion at least twice.
Among the many attempts to reconstruct include among others those by Diethard Hellmann (1964/1976), Gustav Adolf Theill (1978), Andor Gomme (1997), Rudolf Kelber (1998), Ton Koopman (1999), Johannes Koch (1999; based on Hellman's version 1976 ) and Alexander Ferdinand Grychtolik (2007 according to the text of the early version of 1731 and 2010 as the first publication according to the text of the late version of 1744).
In addition to these reconstruction attempts, the modern addition And I tell (1993 ) by Otfried Busing, based on texts by Walter Jens ( retransmission of the Gospel of Mark ), another way of dealing with the Bach fragment dar.