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Handel's earliest datable composition. In Chrysander's "G. F. Handel's Werke" this piece referred to as Op. 2 No 2 388 B-flat major c. 1717–1718 1733 Opus 2 No. 3 In Chrysander's "G. F. Handel's Werke" this piece referred to as Op. 2 No 4. The finale appears in the overture to Athalia (HWV 52) 389 F major c. 1718–1722 1733 Opus 2 No. 4
Handel House Museum at 25 Brook Street and BBC Radio 3 worked in partnership to celebrate Handel's life and music in 2009, with BBC Radio 3 broadcasting the complete 42 operas, 8 January – 25 July 2009; Handel's lost Hamburg operas; List of compositions by George Frideric Handel; Handel Reference Database
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ ˈ h æ n d əl / HAN-dəl; [a] baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel, [b] German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩] ⓘ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) [3] [c] was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.
The Händel-Werke-Verzeichnis (abbreviated as HWV) is the Catalogue of Handel's Works. It was published in three volumes (in German) by Bernd Baselt between 1978 and 1986, and lists every piece of music known to have been written by George Frideric Handel. The catalogue also includes the first few bars of each piece and large amounts of factual ...
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.
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 ...
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Alessandro (HWV 21), is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli 's libretto is based on the story of Ortensio Mauro 's La superbia d'Alessandro .