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Graun: Weihnachtsoratorium – A Christmas Oratorio to rival Bach’s

Dec 13th, 2017 | By Ralph Graves

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Carl Heinrich Graun isn’t the best-known German baroque composer, but at the time he was one of the most prominent. Frederick the Great appointed Graun kapellmeister to his court in 1740. Graun was also one of the major opera composers in Berlin. His Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio) was probably written in the late 1730s. Compared to […]

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