St Luke Passion (Bach)

The St. Luke Passion is a sacred oratorio Passion, which was formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach and therefore the Bach Werke-Verzeichnis, the number 246 was assigned. The research now believes that the work was mostly not composed by Bach himself, which is why it is considered apocryphal today; There are various conjectures about the composer in question.

There is a arisen around 1730 manuscript of the St. Luke Passion, which was partially written down in accordance with handwriting analysis by Bach. Presumably Bach performed it in Leipzig on, or at least intended to do it. His son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Friedrich Agricola had probably mistakenly viewed as a work of Bach and included it in the directory. Regarding Bach's preference for complete cycles (at this time the St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion were already composed ), it seems plausible that he could have a St. Luke Passion composed. Bach Maybe took the St. Luke Passion of another work not yet eruierten composers and arranged them for four solo voices, chorus, orchestra and continuo, in order to meet an urgent deadline to Good Friday 1730, can and saw the episode from getting a own Luke to compose Passion and went instead to the now lost St Mark Passion, to complete the Passion of Fallot.