Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden
church cantata composed by Christoph Graupner
Christoph Graupner composed the Passion cantata Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden (The suffering of Jesus from his friends), 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.
History
Graupner composed the cantata while he was court musician in Darmstadt where he especially supplied church music for decades. Das Leiden Jesu von seinen Freunden is a late cantata among the many he composed for Oculi, the third Sunday in Lent.
The libretto was written by Johann Conrad Lichtenberg (1689-1751), who would become pastor in Darmstadt from 1745 until his death. He was married to a sister of Graupner's wife. Graupner based 1,190 of his around 1,400 cantatas on his texts. Lichtenberg wrote three cycles of Passion cantatas for Darmstadt, the first in 1718, based on seven penitential psalms traditionally associated with the Sundays of Lent, the last in 1743 dealing with sayings of Jesus on the cross, and the second in 1741.
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