George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
Foundling Hospital Anthem HWV 268
5 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
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Details
- For
- 5 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
- Product Type
- Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Product number
- 2298071
- Languages
- english
- Extent
- 68 Pages
Description
- First scholarly-critical edition of the anthem
- Urtext edition based on the “Halle Handel Edition”
- With a practical, manageable piano reduction
- Vocal text in English
George Frideric Handel’s anthem “Blessed are they that consider the poor” was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and has since been known by this name. The vocal texts of the original four movements are taken from the Old and New Testaments (Book of Psalms, Prophets, Epistl...