Hercules: an oratorio in score
Description:
The plot of this oratorio centers around Hercules's death by an inadvertent action of his wife Dejanira. Handel set to music the English libretto by Rev. Thomas Broughton's English, based on Sophocles' Trachiniae, and additions from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The performance forces include: soloists (SATB) and mixed chorus with oboes (2) violins (2), viola, Bass (unspecifdied) and continue.
The index that appears on p.248 contains the incipits of arias, recitative and choruses for each of the thre…
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Date:
1788/1789
Creator:
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 & Broughton, Thomas, 1704-1774