Composition: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75 (Handel, George Frideric)

Title Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Musick
Creators George Frideric Handel (composer) and John Dryden (librettist)
Opus HWV 75
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus and orchestra
Number of movements 2
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Composed 1736
First published 1736
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Composition types Secular oratorios
Language English
Period Baroque
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Details Section Type Publisher Date File (click to view)
view Complete Manuscript Segment 1
Segment 2
Segment 3
Segment 4
Segment 5
view Complete John Walsh Complete Score
view Complete Complete Score
view Complete Bärenreiter Complete Score
view Overture Manuscript Complete Score
view Complete parts Bärenreiter Flute 1, 2
Oboe 1, 2
Bassoon 1/2
Horn 1, 2 (F)
Trumpet 1, 2 (D)
Timpani
Violins I
Violins II
Violins III
Violas
Continuo (Cellos/Basses)
view Complete parts Manuscript 1700 Harpsichord
view Overture parts Manuscript Complete Parts
view Complete parts Clementi Complete Score
view Complete parts Novello Complete Score
Complete Score
view Complete parts Litolff Complete Score
view Aria: Revenge, Timotheus cries (Act II, No.24) parts Ditson 1905 Complete Score
view Aria: Revenge, Timotheus cries (Act II, No.24) parts J. B. Cramer Complete Score
view Complete Complete Score
view Complete selections Vieweg 1930 Complete score 'Festkantate'
view Overture Montréal: Les Éditions Outremontaises 2011 Complete Score
view Aria and Chorus: Happy happy happy pair (Act I, No.3) Complete Score
Engraving files (PMX)
view Aria: Softly sweet in Lydian measure (Act I, No.17) Piano score
Cello part
view Chorus: The many rend the skies (Act I, No.20) Novello Complete Score
view Aria: Revenge, Timotheus cries (Act II, No.24) Complete Score, Trumpet Part
Engraving files (Finale & XML)
view Complete J. and R. Tonson Complete Libretto

Recordings/Performances

DetailsTypeSectionArranged forFiles (click to listen)
view Synthesized Aria and Chorus: Happy happy happy pair (Act I, No.3) For Mixed chorus and Organ (Schmid) Synthesized Performance
view Synthesized Aria: Revenge, Timotheus cries (Act II, No.24) For Trumpet and Organ (Rondeau) Synthesized Performance
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