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List of incidental music by George Frideric Handel HWV Title Premiere Venue Notes 43 The Alchemist: 14 January 1710 Queen's Theatre, London Instrumental music for the revival of Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist. An arrangement, by an anonymous composer, of music from Handel's opera Rodrigo. 44 Comus: June 1745 Ludlow Castle, Shropshire
The German-born Handel had been resident in London since 1712 and had there achieved great success as a composer of Italian operas. He had also enjoyed the patronage of monarchs Queen Anne, George I and George II and other members of the royal family and had been commissioned by them to compose numerous pieces of music for worship services in the royal chapels as well as for other royal ...
The Sarabande was quoted by Joe Hisaishi in the song "Nausicaä · Requiem" from his score for Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 animated film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Dutch singer Petra Berger used the Sarabande as the musical setting for her song about Mary, Queen of Scots , "Still a Queen (In My End Is My Beginning)", from her album Eternal ...
5 March 1976, Handel Festival, Halle A 13: Alessandro Severo: After Apostolo Zeno: 25 February 1738: London, King's Theatre: 18 March 1997, Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London: Pasticcio 40: Serse: After Stampiglia Italian libretto: 15 April 1738: London, King's Theatre: 5 July 1924, Handel Festival Göttingen: Also known as Xerxes ...
Sing Unto God (also known as the Anthem for the Wedding of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha) (HWV 263), is an anthem composed by George Frideric Handel. It was performed for the royal wedding on 27 April 1736 at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace , London with Francesca Cuzzoni -Sandoni, Carlo Broschi "Farinelli ...
Ballets to the music of George Frideric Handel (2 P) C. Cantatas by George Frideric Handel (14 P) Concertos by George Frideric Handel (1 C, 5 P) O.
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 ...
George Frideric Handel. Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (HWV 74) is a secular cantata composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Ambrose Philips, of which the first line, "Eternal source of light divine", provides an alternative title for the work.