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Pages in category "Oratorios by George Frideric Handel" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Portrait of Handel by Thomas Hudson. George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) composed works including 42 operas; 24 oratorios; more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets; numerous arias; odes and serenatas; solo and trio sonatas; 18 concerti grossi; and 12 organ concertos.
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.
Messiah (HWV 56) [1] [n 1] is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter [n 2] by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere a year later.
George Frideric Handel. Deborah (HWV 51) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It was one of Handel's early oratorios in English and was based on a libretto by Samuel Humphreys. It received its premiere performance at the King's Theatre in London on 17 March 1733.
George Frideric Handel – Alexander Balus (1748) George Frideric Handel – Solomon (1748) George Frideric Handel – Susanna (1748) George Frideric Handel – Theodora (1749) George Frideric Handel – The Choice of Hercules (1750) William Hayes – The Fall of Jericho (c. 1740–50) William Hayes – The Passions.
George Frideric Handel. 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 Moses Mendes (d.1758) [1] – is based on the biblical stories of the wise king Solomon from the First Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles, with additional material from Antiquities of the Jews by ...
Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63) is an oratorio in three acts composed in 1746 by George Frideric Handel based on a libretto written by Thomas Morell.The oratorio was devised as a compliment to the victorious Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland upon his return from the Battle of Culloden (16 April 1746). [1]