George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Acis and Galatea HWV 49a
1st version Bärenreiter Urtext
Solo voices, mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
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Details
- For
- Solo voices, mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
- Product Type
- Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Editor
- Wolfram Windszus
- Product number
- 150816
- Lyrics
- John Gay
Description
Acis and Galatea HWV 49a
1st version
Handel set the myth about the love of the shepherd Acis for the sea nymph Galatea from Ovid’s Metamorphoses a total of three times: in the cantata Aci, Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72 (1708) (BA4068), the masque Acis and Galatea HWV 49a (1718) (BA4039) and finally the pasticcio-like serenata Acis and Galatea HWV 49b (1732) (BA10700).
This species of stage work was related to the early eighteenth-century English ma...
Content
- Besetzung / Ensemble
- Vorwort
- Preface
- Verzeichnis der Nummern / Index of numbers
- Händel, Georg Friedrich Acis and Galatea HWV 49a Text: Gay, John / Pope, Alexander / Hughes, John
- Anhang
