However, Keiser's setting starts slightly later than Bach's, which requires a small amount of composition on the part of the reconstructor.
Written under the pseudonym Picander, Christian Friedrich Henrici's libretto survives in a 1732 poetry collection.
[2] The Markus-Passion is a modest setting, adding to Mark chapters 14 and 15 only eight free verse arias and 16 hymn stanzas.
According to Bach Digital, the Passion was scored for SATB singers, two traversos, two oboes, two oboes d'amore, a string section consisting of two violin parts and two viola parts, organ and continuo, possibly complemented by two violas da gamba and two lutes.
Carus-Verlag published Hellmann's work with newly composed recitatives and arias by Johannes Koch in 1999.
The recitatives and turba choruses are drawn from a St Mark Passion traditionally attributed to Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739).
[37] In 2015, Organist Freddy Eichelberger offered a second reconstruction of the 1744 version based on the BWV 198 and composed all missing recitatives, turba choirs and some chorals.
[38] In 2015, church musician Andreas Fischer reconstructed the Markus Passion by parodying only works by Bach.
[39] In 2017, the Dutch organist and harpsichordist Robert Koolstra made his reconstruction based on the text booklet from 1744.