Sosarme, re di Media ("Sosarmes, King of Media", HWV 30) is an opera by George Frideric Handel written in 1732 for the King's Theatre in the Haymarket...
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dramas and operas: Poro, Re dell' Indie, 1731; Rinaldo, 1731; Venceslao, 1731; Catone in Utica, 1732; Ezio, 1732; Sosarme Re di Media, 1732. His Peruvian Tales...
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family. While living in the mansion of Lord Burlington, Handel wrote Amadigi di Gaula, a "magic" opera, about a damsel in distress, based on the tragedy by...
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Messiah (Handel) (category CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes))
192 (July 1741), "Unto us a child is born" and "All we like sheep" from Nò, di voi non vo' fidarmi HWV 189 (July 1741). Handel's instrumentation in the score...
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made an arrangement of some of the movements for the modern orchestra. Such re-orchestrations were normal at the time. According to the conductor Sir Thomas...
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and the second Menuet, but very likely also played in the Ouverture. Handel re-scored the suite for full orchestra for a performance on 27 May in the Foundling...
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use of musical parody, the re-working of music by other composers. For the opening part of Israel in Egypt Handel slightly re-wrote his 1737 Funeral Anthem...
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321/i,ii,iii and HWV 321/iv,v, live performance by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Terni conducted by Paolo Venturi Animated midi recording of HWV 322/i<,ii...
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movement is based on the final section of the duet for two sopranos "Nò, di voi non vo' fidarmi" (HWV 189, July 1741). All they that see Him, laugh Him...
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adaptation was largely based on Luther's translation of the Bible. Mozart re-orchestrated about three-fifths of Handel's composition, primarily providing...
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other composers. Barthold Heinrich Brockes was an influential German poet who re-worked the traditional form of a Passion oratorio, adding reflective and descriptive...
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to 3 4, to which is added a double (variation) composed by Dart. A tempo di Menuet Andante Menuet Movements 1–5 from the Sonata in D minor (HWV 367a,...
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that of Busenello's libretto for Monteverdi's 1642 opera L'incoronazione di Poppea. It recounts Nero's various schemes to replace his current queen Octavia...
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