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Beethoven, Ludwig van: Christ on the mount of olives op. 85

pocket score

Setting: Choir and orchestra
Period: Classic
Length: 255 pages
Weight: 0.48 kg
Published: 2024
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9311
Other reference: HN 9311
ISMN: 9790201893112
As the new house composer at the Theater an der Wien, Beethoven had an opportunity to perform an oratorio during Passiontide in 1803. In a very short space of time he drew up his one and only work for this genre. It deals with Christ’s suffering and prayer in the garden of Gethsemane until he is taken prisoner. Following the premiere, the publisher of the first edition, who disliked the ''operatic'' libretto by Franz Xaver Huber, had an unauthorized revision of the texts undertaken. Although Bee
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