Weimarer Passion

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The work commonly referred to as the Weimarer Passion, BWV deest (BC D 1), is a musical composition among the Passions written by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed in 1717 for at least two solo voices, choir and orchestra with text by an unknown librettist. Unfortunately, both the text and music are lost, but many movements from this work have been reused in other forms and at other times. At one time, it was thought that the work set chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew to music, with interspersed chorales and arias, but current consensus is that it is possible that the text reflected a synopsis of two or more Gospel texts, as well as the interspersed chorales and arias.