"Ombra Mai Fu" for Flute & Harp HWV 40 Georg Friedrich Haendel Flute and Harp Skill level :
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Composer | Haendel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) | ||
Instrumentation | Flute and Harp | ||
Sheet central | Xerxes (Serse) (32 sheet music) | ||
Style | Baroque | ||
Arranger | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||
Publisher | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||
Date | 1738 | ||
Copyright | Public Domain | ||
Added by magataganm, 26 Dec 2012
Serse (Xerxes, HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts
by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in
London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto was
adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio
Stampiglia for an earlier opera of the same name by
Giovanni Bononcini in 1694. Stampiglia's libretto was
itself based on one by Nicolò Minato that was set by
Francesco Cavalli in 1654. The opera is set in Persia
(modern day Iran) in 480 BC and is very loosely based
upon Xerxes I of Persia, th...(+)
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