Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, the Words by Dryden: Set to Musick in the Year 1736 ['From Harmony", HWV 76]
- Type:
- partituur
- Titel:
- Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, the Words by Dryden: Set to Musick in the Year 1736 ['From Harmony", HWV 76]
- Andere titel:
- From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony, HWV 76
- Jaar:
- 1792
- Onderwerp:
- Cecilia
18th Century (1701-1800)
Vocal music
Cantata
London (United Kingdom) - Taal:
- Engels
- Uitgever:
- London Arnold c. 1792
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.KTS1 C1.32 07A19a (Orpheus Instituut)
- Paginering:
- 74 pages
- Reeks:
- The Works of G. F. Händel, Ed. in Score plate nos. 105-6
- Nota:
- Date of composition is wrong, not 1736 but 1739.
Handel sets a poem which the English poet John Dryden wrote in 1687. The main theme of the text is the Pythagorean theory of harmonia mundi, that music was a central force in the Earth's creation. - Permalink:
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