EVANGELIST

Evangelist

The Evangelist in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is the tenor part in his oratorios and Passions who narrates the exact words of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther, in recitative. The part appears in the works St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, and the Christmas Oratorio, as well as the St Mark Passion and the Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11. Some cantatas also contain recitatives of Bible quotations, assigned to the tenor voice.

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evangelist

Noun

  1. An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist.
  2. A preacher of the Quran
  3. A preacher of the gospel.
  4. A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually Evangelist.
  5. A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
  6. A patriarch
  7. A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.


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