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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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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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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Water Music (section Suite in F major (HWV 348))
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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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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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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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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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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George Frideric Handel (redirect from Handel in London)
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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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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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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Giulio Cesare (redirect from Julius Caesar in Egypt)
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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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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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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Ariodante (category Operas set in Scotland)
an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted...
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composer George Frideric Handel and other foreigners as British subjects. In 1723, Handel had been appointed as Composer of Music for King George I of...
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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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Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens...
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Atalanta (opera) (category Operas set in ancient Greece)
opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel composed in 1736. It is based upon the mythological female athlete, Atalanta, the libretto (which is in Italian)...
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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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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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Saul (Handel) (redirect from Dead March in Saul)
Saul (HWV 53) is a dramatic oratorio in three acts written by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Charles Jennens. Taken from the First Book of Samuel...
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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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Berenice (opera) (category Ptolemaic Kingdom in popular culture)
Berenice (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a 1709 Antonio Salvi libretto, Berenice, regina d'Egitto, or Berenice, Queen of...
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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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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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Music for the Royal Fireworks (category 1749 in England)
suite in D major for wind instruments composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's...
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