Mendelssohn’s Passion sparks a JS Bach revival
Feb 17, 2022
2 minutes
Terry Blain
ard as it is to imagine, there was a time when JS Bach’s was virtually unknown outside Leipzig, where it was first performed in 1727. Sporadic performances continued at the city’s Thomaskirche, where Bach had been music director, after his death in 1750. But the broader world knew nothing of what we nowadays view as one of the supreme
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