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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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    H 422, Oratorio for soloists, chorus, orchestra, and continuo 1702 Sébastien de Brossard, Solomon's fall, cantata Handel composed an oratorio entitled...
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  • David. Solomon may also refer to: Solomon (Boyce), a 1742 serenata Solomon (Handel), a 1748 oratorio Solomon (band), a New Zealand rock band Solomon, a 2017...
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    negative portrayal of Solomon and the composition of the Kings history". Retrieved on Jan. 17, 2007 "Handel's three act oratorioSolomon". Archived from the...
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    Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Hebrew Bible in which Solomon ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of a child. Solomon ordered...
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    series of English oratorios based on military themes: Occasional Oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, Alexander Balus, Joshua, and Solomon. The military conquests...
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    the oratorios Solomon and Susanna the previous year. Theodora would be his penultimate oratorio. Theodora differs from the former two oratorios because...
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    This is a chronological list of oratorios from the 16th century to the present. Unless otherwise indicated, all dates are those when the work was first...
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    Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale...
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  • Chamber Choir (2002, concert recording, Maulbronn Monastery Edition) SolomonOratorio in three acts. An historically informed performance in English with...
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    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens...
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    (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...
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    Esther (HWV 50) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It is generally acknowledged to be the first English oratorio. Handel set a libretto after the...
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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 Book with Seven Seals (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln) is an oratorio in German by the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, on themes from the biblical Book...
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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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    George Frideric Handel (category Oratorio composers)
    Another of his English oratorios, Solomon, was first performed on 17 March 1749 at the Covent Garden Theatre. The text for Solomon is thought to have been...
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    La resurrezione (The Resurrection), HWV 47, is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, set to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1652–1728). Capece...
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    a three-act oratorio by George Frideric Handel, considered to be one of his finest dramatic works. It is usually performed as an oratorio in concert form...
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    Saul (HWV 53) is a dramatic oratorio in three acts written by George Frideric Handel with a libretto by Charles Jennens. Taken from the First Book of Samuel...
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    Queen of Sheba (category Solomon)
    Problems playing this file? See media help. Solomon (composed in 1748; first performed in 1749), oratorio by George Frideric Handel; the "Arrival of the...
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    Ludwig van Beethoven (category Oratorio composers)
    2021. Solomon 1998, pp. 284, 339–340. Solomon 1998, pp. 284–285. Solomon 1998, p. 282. Solomon 1998, pp. 301–302. Solomon 1998, pp. 302–303. Solomon 1998...
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    58) is a 'musical drama', originally presented "after the manner of an oratorio", in three parts by George Frideric Handel. Based on an existing opera...
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  • Jürgen Budday (2002, concert recording, Maulbronn Monastery Edition) Solomon - Oratorio in three acts. An historically informed performance in English with...
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    Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1732). Jephtha, an oratorio by Maurice Greene (1737). Jephtha, an oratorio by George Frideric Handel (1751). Jephtas Gelübde...
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    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...
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    The Choice of Hercules (HWV 69) is an oratorio in one act (three scenes) by George Frideric Handel. Handel produced the score between 28 June and 5 July...
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    The Triumph of Time and Truth (category 1707 oratorios)
    an oratorio by George Frideric Handel produced in three different versions across fifty years of the composer’s career: Handel’s very first oratorio, composed...
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    Brockes Passion (Handel) (category Oratorios by George Frideric Handel)
    of Jesus, Suffering and Dying for the Sins of the World), is a German oratorio, libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, first published in 1712 and seeing...
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    Messiah (HWV 56), the English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, is structured in three parts, listed here in tables for their...
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