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    Athalia (HWV 52) is an English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Samuel Humphreys based on the play Athalie by Jean...
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    Collected editions of Handel's works include the Händel-Gesellschaft (HG) and the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA), but the more recent Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis...
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    George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ˈhændəl/; baptised Georg Fried(e)rich Händel, German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April...
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    Athaliah (redirect from Athalia)
    עֲתַלְיָה, Modern: ʻAtalya, Tiberian: ʿĂṯalyā, Greek: Γοθολία Gotholía; Latin: Athalia) was the daughter of either king Omri, or of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel...
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    movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request for...
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    glittering premiere on 6 May. Its success encouraged Handel to write two more oratorios (Deborah and Athalia). All three oratorios were performed to large and...
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  • Rossi) Joad, Athalia (Handel) La Fortuna, Giustino, (Handel) Childerico, Faramondo, (Handel) David, Saul (Handel) Athamas, Semele (Handel) Joseph, Joseph...
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  • does not include the full scores of Handel's works (for the full scores, see Händel-Gesellschaft and Hallische Händel-Ausgabe). The HWV thematic catalogue...
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  • July 2009 Handel's lost Hamburg operas List of compositions by George Frideric Handel Handel Reference Database Hicks, Anthony (1992), 'Handel, George Frideric'...
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  • Ombra mai fu (redirect from Largo (Handel))
    known as "Largo from Xerxes" or "Handel's Largo", is the opening aria from the 1738 opera Serse by George Frideric Handel. "Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra...
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    Alexander's Feast HWV 75, Handel's setting of John Dryden's ode. The performances of Esther and Deborah were revivals, while Athalia was a reworking for its...
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    Handel Hendrix House (previously Handel & Hendrix in London) is a museum in Mayfair, London, dedicated to the lives and works of the German-born British...
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    George Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens, who also compiled the biblical texts for Handel's Messiah. It...
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  • biblical story of Athaliah, the queen of Judah Athalia (Handel), a 1733 oratorio by George Frideric Handel Atalia (Mayr), an 1822 oratorio by Simon Mayr...
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  • Dixit Dominus is a psalm setting by George Frideric Handel (catalogued as HWV 232). It uses the Latin text of Psalm 110 (Vulgate 109), which begins with...
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    presented "after the manner of an oratorio", in three parts by George Frideric Handel. Based on an existing opera libretto by William Congreve, the work is an...
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    Solomon, HWV 67, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous libretto – currently thought to have been penned by the English Jewish poet/playwright...
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    Jephtha (HWV 70) is an oratorio (1751) by George Frideric Handel with an English language libretto by the Rev. Thomas Morell, based on the story of Jephtha...
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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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    "Handel in Hamburg". Muziekweb. 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2023. Arnold Jacobshagen (ed.), Panja Mücke: Das Händel-Handbuch in 6 Bänden. Händels Opern...
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    50) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It is generally acknowledged to be the first English oratorio. Handel set a libretto after the Old Testament...
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    Agrippina (HWV 6) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani. Composed for the 1709–10 Venice...
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    2023. Editionsleitung der Hallischen Händel-Ausgabe: "Dokumente zu Leben und Schaffen", in: Walter Eisen (ed.): Händel-Handbuch: Band 4, Deutscher Verlag...
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    Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata...
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    Theodora (HWV 68) is a dramatic oratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel, set to an English libretto by Thomas Morell. The oratorio concerns the...
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    Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian libretto was adapted...
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  • Zadok the Priest (category Anthems by George Frideric Handel)
    Priest (HWV 258) is a British anthem that was composed by George Frideric Handel for the coronation of George II in 1727. Alongside The King Shall Rejoice...
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    concert form, Deborah, and Athalia (which, like Esther, was also based on a Biblical drama by Racine), both in 1733. By 1738, Handel was experiencing some...
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    and published in 1866 as Volume 22 of the complete works series of the Händel-Gesellschaft. Come, ever smiling Liberty, / And with thee bring thy jocund...
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    Ariodante (category Operas by George Frideric Handel)
    Händel-Ausgabe. In the 1970s, the work began to be revived, and has come to be considered one of Handel's finest operas. On 29 March 1971, the Handel...
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