Golgotha

Oratorio in two parts based on the gospels and texts according to Augustinus

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Frank Martin

Golgotha

Oratorio in two parts based on the gospels and texts according to Augustinus

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Frank Martin

Golgotha

Oratorio in two parts based on the gospels and texts according to Augustinus

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Description:

  • Language: German
  • Pages: 64
  • Release: 17.02.1997
  • Dimensions: 305 x 232 mm
  • Weight: 220 g
  • ISBN: 9783702425807
  • ISMN: 9790008056581
For me, Golgotha was a unique event in my life as a composer. The decision to write the composition did not come from a deliberate choice [of material] like Rilke's Cornet or Shakespeare's Tempest, for instance. Everything, it seemed to me, forbade it, especially a true cult-worship which I had devoted since childhood (up to the present day) to J. S. Bach's Matthew Passion - but perhaps it was even more so the fact that I felt myself unworthy - utterly, completely unworthy - of treating such a topic. Nothing and no one had ever challenged me to do it. But something was called for, something I felt like a calling, and at first I strove against that call with everything I had. But the call was stronger than my resistance, and so I sat down to work ... (Letter from Frank Martin to Willy Fotsch, February 1970)

The great success of Golgotha's premiere has not waned in the meanwhile; it has taken its place in the standard repertoire of the 20th century for evident reasons.