| LC control no. | n 2004069697 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Parnasso in festa |
| Variant(s) | Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Festival on Parnassus for the wedding of Thetis and Peleus Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Parnasso in festa per gli sponsali di Teti e Peleo |
| Form of work | Serenatas Cantatas |
| Beginning date | 1734~ |
| Medium of performance | soprano voice 2 mezzo-soprano 2 alto voice 2 bass voice 1 orchestra |
| Thematic index no. | HWV 73 |
| Special note | Consider as secular cantata for purposes of classification and subject headings. |
| Found in | Handel, George Frideric. Da sorgente, c1999 (title not given) New Grove, 2nd ed. (HWV 73. Parnasso in festa) Händel-Handbuch, Bd. 2, p. 429 (HWV 73. Il parnasso in festa per gli sponsali di Teti e Peleo; serenata in tre parti) Handel, George Frideric. Parnasso in Festa per gli sponsali di teti e Peleo, 2017: title page (Parnasso in Festa per gli sponsali di teti e Peleo : serenata in tre parti : HWV 73) preface (likely composed at the beginning of 1734) Handel, George Frideric. Parnasso in festa, ℗2017: label (Parnasso in festa : HWV 73) booklet (Parnasso in festa, per gli sponsali di Teti e Peleo; not a new composition, but a collection of movements from various works by Handel, more or less heavily reworked, with a new text underlaid; only 9 of the total of 33 numbers plus the overture were newly composed; 20 numbers were borrowed by Handel from his English-language oratorio Athalia (HWV 52); text probably by Giacomo Rossi; first performance at the wedding of Princess Anne and prince William IV of Orange, March 14, 1734) Grove music online, November 16, 2018 (HWV 73. Parnasso in festa (anon.); music mostly from Athalia) |
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