Note 416 — APPENDIX B WAGNER AND SUPER-WAGNER
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A correspondent of the Musical Times objected to this statement, alleging that the so-called Passion chorale is really the tune of the Communion chorale Herzlich tut mich verlangen, which is used for a variety of other hymns, including the O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden. "The result is," he said, "that to the German mind it conveys no particular association, just because it is so frequently used and at the most varied occasions." As a matter of fact, it is precisely to "the German mind" that it does convey the Passion association I suggested, as is shown by the remarks of such writers as Spitta (Life of Bach, Eng. trans., ii. 579), Schweitzer (J. S. Bach, le musicien-poète, p. 281), Arnold Schering (Bachs Textbehandlung, p. 19), and Wolfrum (Johann Sebastian Bach, ii. 14, 15).