Semele : HWV 58. Band 19.2, Serie 1: Oratorien und grosse kantaten /
By: Handel, George Frideric [composer]
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Contributor(s): Risinger, Mark [editor].
Material type: 
ScorePublisher: Kassel : Bärenreiter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: scores (200 pages) : fscsimiles ; 33 cm.Content type: notated music Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Secular oratorios -- Scores | Secular oratorios -- Librettos | Semele (Greek mythology) | Oratorios -- ScoresDDC classification: CE/HANDEL | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Reference | MTU Cork School of Music Library Reference | CE/HANDEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 00182286 |
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For solo voices, mixed chorus (SATB), and orchestra
Secular oratorio in three acts.
Composed in the summer of 1743 and first performed in February 1744 at Covent Garden theatre in London. The work was revived by Handel at the King's Theatre in December that year, in a revised version in which he inserted i.a. five Italian arias from his earlier operas Alcina, Arminio, and Giustino--From preface
Includes English libretto in reduced facsimiles of the London : Jacob and Richard Tonson, 1744 edition; German translation by Michael Pacholke and Hendrik Wilken; texts from additional arias in Appendix I version of December 1744 in Italian with German and English translation.
English words also printed as text with German translation.
Anhang I: Fassung von Dezember 1744 -- Anhang II: Frühe Fassungen einzelner Musiksätze -- Kritischer Bericht