Solo voices, choir, orchestra (2 Soprano Voice Solo, Alto Voice Solo, 5Tenor Voi...(+)
Solo voices, choir,
orchestra (2 Soprano
Voice Solo, Alto Voice
Solo, 5Tenor Voice Solo,
3Bass Voice Solo, SATB
Choir, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2
bassoon, 2 Trp,
3trombone, timpani, Glsp,
Str, Continuo) - Level 4
SKU: BA.BA04020
Oratorio in three
acts. Composed by
George Frideric Handel.
Edited by Percy M. Young.
This edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Halle Handel
Edition (HHA) Series I,
Volume 13. Complete
edition, Score. HWV 53.
Duration 2 hours, 30
minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA04020_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA04020).
ISBN 9790006443055. 33
x 26 cm inches. Text
Language: English,
German. Translation:
Walther
Siegmund-Schultze,
Walther. Charles
Jennens.
Saul was
given its first
performance under
Handel’s direction
at the Haymarket Theatre,
London, on 16 January
1739. The original
libretto (dated 1738)
refers to the work as
“an Oratorio or
Sacred Dramaâ€. This
libretto was written by
Charles Jennens
(1700–1770), a
wealthy amateur writer
from Gopsall,
Leicestershire. A letter
of 28 July 1735 from
Handel to Jennens
suggests that a complete
raft of the text already
existed at that
time.
Saul
occupies an
extraordinarily important
position in the English
oratorio tradition that
Handel brought to
perfection, standing
alongside Israel in Egypt
at the end of the first
creative period of such
works.
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