With the first recording of Georg Anton Kreusser\u2019s Passion oratorio \u201cThe Death of Jesus\u201d, the Mainz Cathedral Choir of St Martin and the Mainz Cathedral Orchestra are reviving a lost musical treasure. Today, the sacred cantata is the only surviving witness to the rich oratorio culture of the city of Mainz\u2019s flourishing musical life in the late 18th century. The Passion is based on the sentimental text by the Protestant poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler, which achieved some fame through Carl Heinrich Graun\u2019s earlier setting. Graun\u2019s oratorio was also performed in Mainz, along with only a few other Catholic courts. Unlike Graun, Kreusser\u2019s setting of the \u201cDeath of Jesus\u201d is deliberately orientated towards a rather operatic musical language and secular performance spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With the first recording of Georg Anton Kreusser\u2019s Passion oratorio \u201cThe Death of Jesus\u201d, the Mainz Cathedral Choir of St Martin and the Mainz Cathedral Orchestra are reviving a lost musical treasure. Today, the sacred cantata is the only surviving witness to the rich oratorio culture of the city of Mainz\u2019s flourishing musical life in … Continue reading Georg Anton Kreusser |Der Tod Jesu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1315],"tags":[1246,1245,1247,1165,1047],"class_list":["post-10451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-choir","category-music","tag-domkantorei-st-martin-mainz","tag-georg-anton-kreusser","tag-johannes-mayer","tag-julia-sophie-wagner","tag-mainzer-domorchester"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10452,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions\/10452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rondeau.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}