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Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden.
church cantata composed by Christoph Graupner
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Christoph Graupner composed the Passion cantata Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden, GWV 1122/41, in Darmstadt in 1741, for Oculi Sunday. It is based on a libretto by Johann Conrad Lichtenberg who wrote a cycle of reflective cantatas for the seven Sundays in Lent of that year, with this cantata focused on Jesus being betrayed and denied by his friends. The cantata is structured in seven movements, a Biblical dictum, a sequence of alternating recitatives and arias, and a closing chorale fantasia. It is scored for four voices, strings and continuo.
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