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#REDIRECT [[George Frideric Handel]]
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==Life==
 
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==Operas==
 
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===The Royal Academy (1719-28)===
 
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===The Royal Academy (1729-34)===
 
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===Covent Garden (1734-37)===
 
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Covent Garden opened at the end of 1732. Spoken plays constituted most of the repertory that the theater initially offered to the public. The idea of interleaving opera performances a few nights week created an opening for Handel. While <i>Ariodante</i> was taking shape, Handel composed ballet music for a revival of <i>Il pastor fido</i> and assembled the pastiche <i>Oreste</i>, both of which were performed at the theater late in 1734.
 
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====<i>Ariodante</i> (HWV 33)====
 
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Handel's <i>Ariodante</i> was composed between August and October 1734. It was the first new opera entirely by him to be performed at Convent Garden.
 
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Antonio Salvi's text (then called <i>Ginevra in Scozia</i>) was originally composed in 1708 for a production (with music by Giacomo Perti) at Pratolino (Florence). It became better known through Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's setting (as <i>Ariodante</i>) for San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, in November 1716. It was this opera production that launched the stellar career of Faustina Bordoni, whose voice was by now celebrated throughout Europe. 
 
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Mark Stahura's 1994 edition of <i>Ariodante</i>, made under contract with the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) in collaboration with Frances Bennion and Edmund Correia Jr., is available online as PDF [[Ariodante | score and parts]]. It is based on Handel's manuscript in the British Library.
 
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====<i>Alcina</i> (HWV 34)====
 
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<i>Alcina</i> opened at Covent Garden on 16 April 1735. The score had been finished early in February of that year. Rich in the use of "woodland" instruments (flutes, piccolo, and oboes), a few excerpts took on a life of their own in such editions as John Walsh's <i>Alcina for a flute, containing the overture, songs, and symphonys curiously transpos'd and fitted for the flute</i>. John Bland's <i>Bird of May: To a favorita aire in </i>Alcina <i> by Mr. Handel</i> prompted John Simpson to issue <i>Bird of May: To a nightingale....The adieu to the Spring Garden at Vaux Hall</i>, and many further issues, all in 1735 and 1736. The basis for this "faourite aire" was nothing other than the Musette movement of the opera's overture. The rest of the eighteenth century, in which images of natural innocence were highly valued, was filled with musical depictions of nightingales.
 
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The sorceress Alcina had a long history on the opera stage. Antonio Fanzaglia's libretto had been written for Riccardo Broschi's opera <i>L/isola di Alcina</i>, which had been performed in Rome in 1728. It was based on cantos 6 and 7 of Ariosto's <i>Orlando furioso</i>. The knight Ruggiero is retained, but other roles have been modified. Handel, who had become acquainted with text during his visit to Italy in 1729, revised the music in 1736 and again in 1737, leading to a production in Brunswick in 1738.
 
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The 1868 edition of <i>Alcina</i> by the Händel Gesellschaft (the German Handel Society) is available for viewing and download [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00016931/images/index.html (1868 edition of Handel's <i>Alcina</i> at the Vifamusik website)]
 
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====<i>[[Atalanta]]</i> (HWV 35)====
 
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<htmlet>atalanta</htmlet><br>
 
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<font size="1">Performed with CCARH <br>score/parts</font>
 
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{{atalanta}} <!-- Go to Template:atalanta to edit content -->
 
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====<i>Arminio</i> (HWV 36)====
 
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Although composed in September 1735, <i>Arminio</i> was first performed at Covent Garden on 12 January 1737. Antonio Salvi's text on Arminius (Hermann), the Germanic chief who defeated Roman legions in the first years of the first century, had been written for an earlier setting (Pratolino, 1703) by Alessandro Scarlatti. The subject itself had been treated in Venetian operas of the later seventeenth century.
 
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<i>Arminio</i> was not by any measure one of Hancel's more successful operas. It had no revivals, nor did it generate any significant number of circulated offshoots. The German Handel Society edition is available for download from Vifamusik [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00016934/images/index.html Arminio (1882 edn.)].
 
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====<i>Giustino</i> (HWV 37)====
 
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Composed during a three-week period starting on August 14, 1736, <i>Giustino</i> had its premier at Covent Garden on February 17, 1737. The text was inspired by that of Niccolò Beregan (Venice 1683),  for Giovanni Legrenzi's like-named work, and its adaptation by Pietro Pariati (Bologna 1711). A flute arrangement of the "overture, songs and symphonys" was published soon after its premier by John Walsh (London, 1737) under the title <i>Justin</i>. Specific items within the work were recycled by Handel in subsequent operas and oratorios. The Händel Gesellschaft edition can be downloaded here [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00016933/images/index.html Giustino].
 
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<i>Berenice</i>, the final opera in Handel's Covent Garden series, opened  on May 18 1737. Handel had composed it from mid-December to late January. Its libretto, by Antonio Salvi, had been written in 1709 for Florence. The work was recast for Venice (1711) as <i>Le gare di politica e di Amore</i> by Gio. Maria Ruggieri. The Händel Gesellschaft edition is available for download here:[http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00016935/images/index.html <i>Berenice</i>].
 
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==Oratorios==
 
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==Instrumental Music==
 
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==References==
 

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