The St Matthew Passion's Wikipedia article is a community-edited encyclopedia entry, covering Johann Sebastian Bach's BWV 244, its April 11, 1727 Good Friday premiere at St Thomas Church, Leipzig, its Picander libretto, and its central role in the 1829 Mendelssohn revival that revived interest in Bach's music generally. Its strength is that these are the kind of stable, documentable composition and performance history facts a general reference handles well. Its limit is that a claim about the work's specific theological or liturgical meaning within the Lutheran Passion tradition needs a source examining that directly, not this general encyclopedia overview.
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Wikipedia's article on the St Matthew Passion is a continuously revised, community edited tertiary encyclopedia entry, hence the lower tier, though useful for the work's stable documentable composition and performance history. NotesEncyclopedic facts for Bach's BWV 244: its April 11, 1727 Good Friday premiere at St Thomas Church, Leipzig, its Picander libretto and its role in the 1829 Mendelssohn revival.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Matthew_Passion
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 18 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Musical Works, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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