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A history of the oratorio - Page 36
books.google.comHoward E. Smither - 1977 - 507 pages - Preview



... in Dresden on Good Friday, Holy Saturday, or both.166 During the reign of Elector Friedrich August II (King August III of Poland, 1733-63),

the splendour of court life increased, as did
that of Italian opera and oratorio performance.

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Haydn, The Creation - Page 3

books.google.comNicholas Temperley - 1991 - 135 pages - Preview

assertion of German language and culture,

first in opposition to

the alien Italian opera and oratorio,

and later also in defiance of the Napoleonic military threat. The English oratorio By contrast with Vienna, London was the mercantile ...


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Collection of 168 compositions, including melodies from Italian ...
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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music: Musical ... - Page 242
books.google.comW. L. Hubbard - 2005 - 548 pages - Preview



"An Irish singer, whose real name was as above, who was born at Cahir, Tipperary, and who for many years was

associated with Italian Opera and oratorio
throughout Europe.

He studied with Bisaccia, the elder, at Naples, and from 1862 to ...


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Historical dictionary of choral music - Page 345

books.google.comMelvin P. Unger - 2010 - 555 pages - Preview

Around 1665,
after Italian opera and
oratorio had begun
taking root in Germany (especially in the northern cities), composers began employing the new theatrical forms and techniques for heightened dramatic impact, resulting in the ...


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The American history and encyclopedia of music ...


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An Irish singer, whose real name was as above, who was born at Cahir, Tipperary, and who for many years was associated with Italian Opera and oratorio throughout Europe. He studied with Bisaccia, the elder, at Naples, and from 1862 to ...


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Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792-1807 - Page 99

books.google.comJohn A. Rice - 2003 - 386 pages - Preview


"In view of her love of
Italian opera
and oratorio, however, it is
interesting to note that only three of these works
were first performed in Italy - Mayr's Lubino e Carlotta and Imisteri eleusini and Vincenzo Pucitta's Teresa e Wilk ...


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Handel, Haydn, and the Viennese classical style
books.google.comJens Peter Larsen - 1988 - 332 pages - Snippet view



For another, it was possible to
abandon the stereotyped character of
libretto that formed the
basis of Italian opera and oratorio
and give oratorio texts an aura of the great English dramatic traditions. The text of oratorios became ...


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Mozart - Page 28
books.google.comJulian Rushton - 2006 - 320 pages - Preview
3 A performance of

"Betulia liberata" in 1775 in Munich may not have been of Mozart's work.

The libretto was by Metastasio, whose libretti were repeatedly set by all composers of Italian opera and oratorio.


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Strong on Music: Reverberations, 1850-1856 - Page 327

books.google.comVera Brodsky Lawrence, George Templeton Strong - 1995 - 863 pages - Preview

Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686—1768),
the prolific Italian opera and oratorio composer
and singing teacher, in the course of his long career had been a collaborator of Domenico Scarlatti, a rival of Handel, and a teacher of Haydn.


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