Classical Composer: | Handel, George Frideric |
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Work: | Solomon, HWV 67 * |
Year Composed: | 1748 |
Instrumentation: | 1 harpsichord, 8.7.6.5.0 str, 2 'ob.ad libitum', |
Publishers: |
C.F. Kahnt Edwin F. Kalmus Chester Music and Novello & Co. John Walsh |
Duration: | 00:04:00 |
Period: | Baroque (1600-1750) |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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Handel's career in England involved him initially with Italian opera and later with a form that he largely created, that of English oratorio. It is from one of these works, Solomon, written in 1749, and combining as always the musical felicities of Italian opera with English words and a religious text, that the famous Arrival of the Queen of Sheba is taken. In his concerti grossi, Handel relied on the example of Corelli, a musician whom he had met in Rome. The form that had developed brought contrast in an instrumental composition between a small solo group, the concertino, and the body of the orchestra, the ripieno players. An earlier set of such works, published in 1734 and using wind instruments in addition to strings and basso continuo, had been derived from a variety of earlier sources.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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