Hercules, an Oratorio in Score. Composed in the Year 1744 [HWV 60]

Type:

partituur

Titel:

Hercules, an Oratorio in Score. Composed in the Year 1744 [HWV 60]

Auteur:

Handel, George Frideric; Broughton, Thomas

Onderwerp:

18th Century (1701-1800)
Oratorio
Vocal music
United Kingdom

Taal:

Engels

Uitgever:

London Arnold 1787-97

Plaatsnummer:

ORPH.KTS1 C1.32 07A05 (Orpheus Instituut)

Paginering:

248 pages Frontispiece engraving of the composer

Reeks:

The Works of G. F. Händel, Ed. in Score plate nos. 34-39

Nota:

Librettist Broughton, a lover of music, knew Handel, and supplied words for some of his compositions, including a libretto based on Sophocles' Women of Trachis and the ninth book of Ovid's Metamophises for the drama Hercules, first performed at the Haymarket in 1745.Handel's biographer, Paul Henry Lang, praises Broughton's libretto for its "good theatrical sense" and the way in which it peels away any extraneous elements of the narrative to concentrate on the central drama of jealousy.

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