Wouter de Moor · @wouterdemoor
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This was supposed to be the first, complete recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. But a few months after the first parts of the Oratorio were recorded, conductor Fritz Lehmann suffered a fatal heart attack (+1956) in the intermission of a performance of the St Matthew Passion.

The St Matthew Passion was finished with another conductor. The audience was not told that Lehmann suffered a heart attack in the intermission.

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