Solo voices, orchestra (Soprano Voice Solo, Mezzo-Soprano Voice Solo, 2 Alto Voi...(+)
Solo voices, orchestra
(Soprano Voice Solo,
Mezzo-Soprano Voice Solo,
2 Alto Voice Solo, Tenor
Voice Solo, Bass Voice
Solo, 2 recorder-A, 2 Fl,
2 Ob, 2 clarinet, Str,
Continuo)
SKU:
BA.BA04052
Dramma
per musica in three
Acts. Composed by
George Frideric Handel.
Edited by Terence Best.
This edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Halle Handel
Edition (HHA) Serie II,
Band 15. Complete
edition, Score. HWV 18.
Duration 3 hours.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BA04052_00. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA04052).
ISBN
9790006495702. 33.1 x 26
cm inches. Nicola
Francesco
Haym.
Handel began
the composition of
Tamerlano, one of the
supreme masterpieces of
Baroque opera seria, on
3rd July 1724. The
libretto was an
adaptation by Nicola Haym
of Agostino Piovene's
Tamerlano, Tragedia per
musica, which had been
set to music by Francesco
Gasparini, and performed
in Venice in 1711. When
Handel dated the last
page of the autograph on
4rd July the work
appeared to be complete;
but during the three
months which passed
before the premiere at
the King's Theatre in the
Haymarket on 31 October,
so many alterations and
revisions were made that
a fresh performing-score
had to be writtern very
late in the proceedings,
to replace an earlier one
which is now
1ost.
There were
twelve performances
between 31 October 1724
and 8 May 1725. Handel
revived the opera only
once, in 1731, for three
performances. For this
revival he marked in the
performing score a number
of cuts in the
recitatives, which are
reproduced in the present
edition; there is more
recitative in Tamerlano
than in any other Handel
opera.
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