St. Matthew Passion

The St. Matthew Passion is the passion of Jesus of Nazareth , as presented in the Gospel according to Matthew in its chapters 26 EU and 27 EU .

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The following composers, among others, have made the passion of Jesus the subject of passion music according to Matthew :

Johann Walter (around 1530)
Orlando di Lasso (1575)
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1585)
Johannes Herold (1594)
Thomas Selle (1642)
Heinrich Schütz (1666), see St. Matthew Passion (Schütz)
Anonymus (1667), so-called Uppsala Passion, probably originated in Lüneburg
Johann Sebastiani (1672)
Johann Theile (1673)
Johann Christoph Rothe (1697)
Johann Georg Kühnhausen (around 1700)
Johann Valentin Meder (1701)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1727/1729?), See St. Matthew Passion (JS Bach)
Johann Theodor Roemhildt (1736)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1722, 1726, 1730, 1734, 1738, 1742, 1746, 1750, 1754, "Danziger Passion" 1754, 1758, 1762, 1766)
Gottfried August Homilius
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1769, 1773, 1777, 1781, 1785, 1789), see St. Matthew Passion (CPE Bach)
Ernst Pepping (1950)
Ulrich Nehl's Passion Music based on the Evangelist Matthew (1990)
Tan Dun Water Passion according to Matthew (1999/2000)
Sven-David Sandström (2014)

The St. Matthew Passion is also the title of an Austrian music film from 1949 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Elisabeth Höngen and Karl Schmitt-Walter , directed by Ernst Marischka .

Matthew Passion is also a ballet by John Neumeier .