Occasional Oratorio
Template:Handel oratorios An Occasional Oratorio (HWV 62) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, based upon a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after the poetry of John Milton and Edmund Spenser. Handel composed the Occasional Oratorio hastily in January and February 1745 and premiered it immediately on 14 February 1745 with Willem de Fesch, Élisabeth Duparc, Elisabetta de Gambarini, John Beard (tenor), and Thomas Reinhold at Royal Opera House. It contains 44 movements split over three parts. The famous chorus "Prepare the Hymn" (a paraphrase of Psalm 81:1-2) is the 26th movement and appears in the second part. The second minuet from the Music for the Royal Fireworks was reused from this oratorio.[1]
References
- ^ C. Hogwood, Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks Cambridge University Press, p. 133
External links
- Occasional Oratorio: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- An Occasional Oratorio at gfhandel.org.
- Full-text libretto hosted by Stanford University.
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