George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Occasional Oratorio HWV 62
Bärenreiter Urtext
Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
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Print edition
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Details
- For
- Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
- Product Type
- Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Editor
- Merlin Channon
- Product number
- 579893
- Languages
- english
Description
- First scholarly-critical edition based on the Urtext of the “ Halle Handel Edition”
- Idiomatic, playable piano reduction
- Foreword (Ger/Eng)
The “Occasional Oratorio” was composed as a reaction to a political event which shook the whole of England : the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46 against the Hanoverian monarchy was crushed under the leadership of the Duke of Cumberland. Handel, who was working on the oratorio “ Judas Maccabaeus” at the time, composed the oratorio quickly and reused s...