Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Freiburger Rundbrief; Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,2 (1998) 103-111
Schlagwort(e):
Bach, Johann Sebastian,
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Christianity and antisemitism History 1500-1800
Kurzfassung:
Contends that Bach's "Johannes-Passion" expresses in a musical way Luther's polemics against the Jews and Judaism. Luther viewed the Jews as stubborn and unpenitent, unbelieving and perfidious. These attributes are represented in Bach's work by so-called "Jewish" choirs which are symmetrically arranged around the chorus, polarizing the "perfidi iudaei" as opposed to the "fides christiana". Claims that these musical configurations formulate a meaning beyond the musical one. Bach uses the figure known as "Perfidia" whose task is to express "stubborn impenitence" by persistent repetitions. States that this work of Protestant sacred music arose on the same background as did the forces which later led to the Holocaust.
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