Handel Semele

Score of Händel's Semele

Chrysander | Edition 1860 | 260 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 54 MB

Semele (HWV 58) is an ooratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel.

In the early 1740s, the performance of oratorios at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, represented George Frideric Handel’s chief concert activity in London. His biblical oratorios — Israel in Egypt (written 1738), Messiah (1741), Samson (1743) among them — bore some relationship to Greek tragedy, and it is perhaps not surprising that he decided to venture into the world of classical drama. He accordingly took up William Congreve's libretto for the 1707 John Eccles opera Semele, writing the music over a one-month period (from June 3 to July 4) in 1743. The work was first performed in February 1744 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London.

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