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Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era

Joseph Martin Kraus
Der Tod Jesu
Edited by Bertil van Boer, Jr.
C 27 ISBN 0-89579-219-2 (1987) xvii+89 pp. $36.00
  ISBN 978-0-89579-219-8 (13-digit)
C 27CH Coro $9.00
C 27P Instrumental parts $27.00
Kraus, one of the most original and talented contemporaries of Haydn and Mozart, was both a composer and a literary figure of the Sturm und Drang movement. During his university years in Göttingen he was a member of the famous Hainbund literary circle and later became Kapellmeister at the court of the Swedish King Gustav III. Der Tod Jesu, for which Kraus wrote both text and music, represents an homage to Graun's popular oratorio as well as the conscious application of Strum und Drang literary principles to music.

"Van Boer has given us not only a work through which we can explore further the meaning of Strum und Drang, but also a fascinating addition to the choral repertory." Howard E. Smither, Music & Letters, November 1989. 

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Contents 
Introduzione; Recitativo "Kommt! Geliebte, zur Schedelstädte"; Aria, "Er starb!"; Recitativo, "O weinet mit mir, Ihr Sterblichen!"; Duetto, "Weine Sünder"; Coral, "Jesus ruft dir"; Recitativo, "Ja, man schleppte ihn vor den Richter"; Intermezzo; Coro, "Der Rächer kömmt"; Recitativo, "An jenem Tage"; Aria, "Sey ewig mir gesegnet"; Recitativo, "Komm, gottseeliger Pilgrim!"; Coral, "O Traurigkeit"; Recitativo, "Sind wir frei von seinem Tode?"; Aria, "Wenn einst die Ungewitter" (alternate: "Wenn mich mein Heyland schützet"); Coro ultimo, "Erbarme dich unser"

 

Parts 
vn. 1; vn. 2; va.; bass; hn. 1, 2; clarino 1, 2; timp.