Christian Heinrich Postel

German composer

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operatic setting of the Passion

  • Crucifixion of Christ
    In Passion music

    …to this trend came with Christian Heinrich Postel’s version of the St. John Passion, set by Handel in 1704, and with the St. John and St. Matthew Passions by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach’s Passions made the texts important and dignified and wedded to them music of remarkable fervor, heightening the…

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