Der Tod Jesu - Graun

There are two major works under the title "Der tod Jesu", two compositions of a very high degree in inventiveness that emerged over the hand of two great masters, Telemann and Graun that premiered almost simultaneously, just one week of separation between each other.  Unfortunately, history have judge unequal both works, dismissing Telemann’s one and covering of glory Graun’s one. But which were the facts to this to happen been Telemann the God of music by that time? One explication is perhaps the stylistic changes that were growing to welcome the new stile “Gallant” that characterized the classicism, in which Graun’s composition is made of.  Another possibility that is stated into the the booklet is the fact that Graun’s Der tod Jesu along History have been compared with Bach’s Mathews Passion, so, Graun’s work hung of Bach’s work success, but that do not discredict the greath quality of Graun's work.

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