Liszt did orchestrate Schubert's wanderer fantasy as a concerto, by the way. It is doubtful the opera-going public would support such a work, no matter what its musical merits might be. It is one thing to put together a performance of a passion with a college or church or community choir working on it all year, it is another to mount a staged production. Most baroque operas have not survived due to the fact that better techniques were developed during the classical period for musico-dramatic development. (To Piet Wester) In spite of some very expressive and dramatic writing in the Passions etc., I don't think we are missing that much. (To Lolita) I never stop dreaming of what would have happened if Bach had come to work in a place where he had to write opera's.Īnd what is Schubert had written piano concertos. (To Inotmark) Would you tell me, who criticized him for that? What source do you have for that? Tomas Schneider wrote (September 10, 1999): The same situation can be observed in several profane cantatas - I could even say in most of them. Cantata BWV 60, es ist genug, is a dialog between fear and hope which is as operatic as anything in its musical structure, but represents a psychological drama more than a physical drama. There is a problem though, particularly in the passions, of narrative, since the music alternatively presents the story, (recitatives and some choruses) then comments on it from outside, (arias) and then speaks for the audience (chorales).Ī lot of arias and duets and even some entire cantatas are entirely dramatic, but very difficult to stage. He was, however, criticized for using operatic techniques of composition in his liturgical music and passions, so you might say he wrote pseudo operas if you like. He never wrote an opera that was to be staged. Just a query - Did JS Bach ever compose an opera or pseudo-opera? | Scores & Composition, Parodies, Reconstructions, Transcriptions
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