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    Giove in Argo (Jupiter in Argos, HWV A14) is an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. It is one of Handel's three pasticcio works made up of music...
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    Lascia ch'io pianga (category Compositions in F major)
    will come when your heart doesn't expect it. Handel's 1739 pasticcio Giove in Argo also has a "Lascia la spina" aria, but a shorter one, less known, and...
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    decade he acquired a European reputation and, by the time he sang in Lotti's Giove in Argo in 1717 at Dresden, a commensurately enormous salary. As with many...
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    secular cantata for soprano and instruments written by George Frideric Handel in 1707. Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG liiB...
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  • Zadok the Priest (category Compositions in D major)
    that was composed by George Frideric Handel for the coronation of George II in 1727. Alongside The King Shall Rejoice, My Heart is Inditing, and Let Thy...
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  • operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres. Though his large scale English language works written for...
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    Messiah (Handel) (category 1742 in Ireland)
    Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale...
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  • Sheba" is one of two instrumental movements in Solomon, an oratorio by George Frideric Handel written in May and June 1748 and premiered on 17 March 1749...
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    and organ concerti. Born in Halle, Germany, Handel spent his early life in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk...
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    Henceforth, with the exception of Giove in Argo (1739), Imeneo (1740) and Deidamia (1741), he abandoned Italian opera in favour of the English oratorio,...
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  • The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred...
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  • Gaula, Arianna in Creta, Ariodante, Arminio, Atalanta, Berenice, Deidamia, Ezio, Faramondo, Flavio, Floridante, Florindo, Giove in Argo, Giulio Cesare...
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    arrangement found in Chrysander's Gesellschaft edition of Handel's works (in volume 47, published in 1886), where the movements from the "suites" in D and G were...
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  • Schmidt] should have no business with them.” In Dresden he also composed operas, including Giove in Argo, Teofane and Li quattro elementi (all with librettos...
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  • work was completed in April 1707 while Handel was living in Italy. It is Handel's earliest surviving autograph. The work was written in the Baroque style...
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  • Handel Festival, Halle (category Classical music festivals in Germany)
    Köhler and conducted by Arman, was recorded. The pasticcio Giove in Argo was performed in 2007 after its premiere that season at the Handel Festival,...
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  • Pasticcio (section In opera)
    as Handel, for example Oreste (1734), Alessandro Severo (1738) and Giove in Argo (1739), as well as Gluck, and Johann Christian Bach. These composite...
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  • Ombra mai fu (category 1906 in radio)
    (sung in the tenor register) Problems playing this file? See media help. The opera was a commercial failure, lasting only five performances in London...
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    by George Frideric Handel compiled into a set and published by John Walsh in 1734. Musicologists now agree that Handel had no initial knowledge of the...
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    The Te Deum for the Victory at the Battle of Dettingen in D major, HWV 283, is the fifth and last setting by George Frideric Handel of the 4th-century...
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    Frideric Handel produced in three different versions across fifty years of the composer’s career: Handel’s very first oratorio, composed in spring 1707, to an...
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    composed in 1718, but was heavily revised into a full oratorio in 1732. Esther began in 1718 as a masque, or chamber drama (HWV 50a), composed early in Handel's...
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    them back to Scotland in December 1745. The fighting was at a hiatus due to winter weather and the Duke of Cumberland was in London in February 1746. Handel...
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    an oratorio", in three parts by George Frideric Handel. Based on an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, the work is an opera in all but name but...
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    numerous times in Baroque Germany, although to other ages and in other countries some of Brockes' poetry has seemed in poor taste.: 133  In Brockes' version...
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    The Cuckoo and the Nightingale (concerto) (category Compositions in F major)
    The concerto premiered in London in 1739 as an interlude during the first performance of the composer's oratorio Israel in Egypt. Handel wrote for a...
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    Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo ˈtʃeːzare in eˈdʒitto, - ˈtʃɛː-]; lit. 'Julius Caesar in Egypt'; HWV 17), commonly known as Giulio Cesare,...
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    Serse (category Works set in the 5th century BC)
    title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto...
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    Johannes (the Passion according to the evangelist John). The work was published in volume nine of the Händel-Gesellschaft (1860), but is now thought to have...
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    Göttingen International Handel Festival (category Music festivals established in 1919)
    Göttingen) is a German festival of baroque music, based in Göttingen, Germany. The festival was established in 1919 by Oskar Hagen, art historian and father of...
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