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Originally composed to be sung by a soprano castrato (and typically sung in modern performances of Serse by a countertenor, contralto or a mezzo-soprano; sometimes even by a tenor or high baritone an octave below), [1] it has been arranged for other voice types and instruments, including solo organ, solo piano, violin or cello and piano, and string ensembles, often under the title "Largo from ...
Handel composed the work over the period of 19 January to 4 February 1740, [1] and it was premiered on 27 February 1740 at the Royal Theatre of Lincoln's Inn Fields.At the urging of one of Handel's librettists, Charles Jennens, Milton's two poems, "L'Allegro" and "il Penseroso", were arranged by James Harris, [2] [3] interleaving them to create dramatic tension between the personified ...
Title page of the libretto, London 1738. Serse (Italian pronunciation:; English 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.
Collected editions of Handel's works include the Händel-Gesellschaft (HG) and the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA), but the more recent Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis (HWV) publication is now commonly used to number his works. For example, Handel's Messiah can be referred to as: HG xlv, HHA i/17, or HWV 56. [1]
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
Its melody is first found in act 3 of Handel's 1705 opera Almira as a sarabande; [1] the score for this can be seen on page 81 of Vol. 55 [2] of Friedrich Chrysander.Handel then used the tune for the aria "Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa", or "Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose", for the character Piacere in part 2 of his 1707 oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (which was much later, in ...
Handel's Water Music, although it was composed more than thirty years earlier, is often paired with the Music for the Royal Fireworks as both were written for outdoor performance. Older recordings tend to use arrangements of Handel's score for the modern orchestra, for example, the arrangements by Hamilton Harty (1923) and Leopold Stokowski.
Largo (Italian for 'wide', 'broad'), a very slow tempo, or a musical piece or movement in such a tempo "Largo" from Xerxes arranged from " Ombra mai fu ", the opening aria from Handel's opera Serse Hugo Largo , an American band from the 1980s