Christian Heinrich Postel

German composer

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In Passion music
…to this trend came with Christian Heinrich Postel’s version of the St. John Passion, set by Handel in 1704, and with the St. John and St. Matthew Passions by J.S. Bach. Bach’s Passions made the texts important and dignified and wedded to them music of remarkable fervour, heightening the drama…
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