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The concert “Gloria in excelsis” is the second Bach Choir concert of the 2025/26 season and part of the “Winter in Schwetzingen” festival. The program focuses on festive Baroque Christmas music and juxtaposes two important contemporaries: the Dresden Baroque master Jan Dismas Zelenka and Johann Sebastian Bach. At the center is Zelenka’s artful Missa Nativitatis Domini (Mass for the Nativity of the Lord) in D major. Zelenka, a Bohemian composer and colleague of Bach, is best known for his extensive sacred output. The program is complemented by Bach’s Christmas cantata “Gloria in excelsis Deo” (BWV 191), one of Bach’s few works with a Latin text, originally composed for Christmas Day.
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