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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