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Gideon’s Reviving Courage from Biblical Sonata No. 5

Johann Kuhnau

Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722). Bach’s predecessor at Leipzig, remembered for programmatic Biblical keyboard sonatas.

Era / date
Baroque

Themes in the music

Title

Gideon’s renewed courage, depicted in Kuhnau’s biblical sonata.

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