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Bach was nowhere more emotional as a composer than in his religious music. Take this gloriously joyful expression in his B Minor Mass, the "laudamus Te" ("We Praise You")

 

He also wrote five Passions (works describing the Crucifixion, the events leading up to it, and the coming Resurrection), of which only two survive. "O Sacred Head", one of the most popular Lutheran hymns, was an adaptation of music from The Passion According to St. Matthew. Like most of the Passion Plays performed in the early 18th century, there are whiffs of Anti-Semitism (the rather simplistic interpretation of the time blamed the entire thing on the Jews, with the Romans are largely bewildered bystanders. That colored just about all relationships between Christians and Jews.) Still, the music still sounds fresh and modern nearly 300 years later. Makes me wonder why the Cathedral of Leipzig and its musical college thought they had settled for a mediocrity in hiring Bach

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