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Judas Maccabaeus. (Handel) 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]
Georg Händel. Georg Händel (1622–1697) The small organ in the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen. Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Georg Händel ( German: [ˈhɛndl̩] ⓘ; Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg, 24 September 1622 – Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, 11 February 1697) was a barber-surgeon and the father of Georg Frideric Handel .
Clori, Tirsi, e Fileno, Cantata a tre (HWV 96), subtitled Cor fedele in vano speri ("A faithful heart hopes in vain"), is a 1707 comic cantata by George Frideric Handel. The subject is a pretty shepherdess who loves two young men, but loses both when they discover her fickleness. Believed lost for many years, the score is the source of arias in ...
Georg Friedrich Händel, v anglicky hovoriacich krajinách písaný ako George Frideric Handel (niekedy aj Haendel, * 23. február 1685, Halle – † 14. apríl 1759, Londýn ), bol anglicko-nemecký hudobný skladateľ. Bol jednou z najvýznamnejších postáv v dejinách európskej hudby. Žil a tvoril na prelome dvoch epoch - baroka a ...
Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità (The Triumph of Time and Truth), HWV 46b. Revised and expanded into three sections in March 1737, the work also had its name adjusted. Handel was by that time living in England and producing seasons of English-language oratorio and Italian opera. This version premiered on March 23, received three more ...
The Handel organ concertos, Op. 4, HWV 289–294, are six organ concertos for chamber organ and orchestra composed by George Frideric Handel in London between 1735 and 1736 and published in 1738 by the printing company of John Walsh. Written as interludes in performances of oratorios in Covent Garden, they were the first works of their kind for ...
Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne, HWV 122) is a secular cantata composed by George Frideric Handel in 1709–10. Handel began composing the work in Venice in 1709 and completed it in Hanover after arriving in 1710 to take up his appointment as Kapellmeister to the Elector, the later King George I of Great Britain.
