• Urtext edition based on the “Halle Handel Edition”
• Includes literal translations into German and English
• Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng)
• With a practical, idiomatic piano reduction

The episode from Ovid‘s “Metamorphoses” in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo’s advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, has inspired the masterworks of many artists. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose famous marble sculpture is housed i...