Georg Friedrich Händel
Almira, Queen of Castile HWV 1
Opera in three acts
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Georg Friedrich Händel
Almira, Queen of Castile HWV 1
Opera in three acts
- Instrumentation Soloists, Mixed Choir (SATB) and Chamber Orchestra
- Composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- Editor Andreas Köhs
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
- Editor Dorothea Schröder
- Lyricist Friedrich Christian Feustking
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Piano Reduction Download
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA4050-90-DL
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Almira, Handel's first opera, was successfully premiered in 1705 at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. It was conducted by Reinhard Keiser, who, remarkably, had previously set the libretto by Friedrich Christian Feustking to music himself. The role of Fernando was created by Johann Mattheson. The translation used by Handel leaves some Italian arias untranslated, resulting in a charming German-Italian hybrid form.
The opera, which ends with a triple wedding after all kinds of love entanglements, is characterized above all by richly decorated scenes, such as the procession on the occasion of Almira's coronation ceremony, a duel, a dungeon scene and a masked dance of the three continents of Europe, Africa and Asia.
The piano reduction of George Frideric Handel's "Almira" has a minor sensation in store: in 1732, Georg Philipp Telemann conducted a revival of Handel's "Almira". He removed the aria no. 28 "Ingrato, spietato" from his conducting copy, which had been considered lost ever since. In the 1994 volume of the "Hallische Händel-Ausgabe" (HHA), it is still included only with the edited vocal text, but without any music at all, thanks to a contemporary copy from the beginning of the 18th century found in the music library of the Mariengymnasium in Jever, the aria can be made available in a piano reduction for musical practice and thus also performed and played. Previously, the pages in question were only reproduced as a facsimile in an article in the "Göttinger Händel-Beiträge".
Furthermore, with the help of the Jever source, the bars of the basso continuo part in Bellante's aria "Ich brenne zwar" (No. 71), which had previously been missing or added by the editor of the score, could be reconstructed.
The opera, which ends with a triple wedding after all kinds of love entanglements, is characterized above all by richly decorated scenes, such as the procession on the occasion of Almira's coronation ceremony, a duel, a dungeon scene and a masked dance of the three continents of Europe, Africa and Asia.
The piano reduction of George Frideric Handel's "Almira" has a minor sensation in store: in 1732, Georg Philipp Telemann conducted a revival of Handel's "Almira". He removed the aria no. 28 "Ingrato, spietato" from his conducting copy, which had been considered lost ever since. In the 1994 volume of the "Hallische Händel-Ausgabe" (HHA), it is still included only with the edited vocal text, but without any music at all, thanks to a contemporary copy from the beginning of the 18th century found in the music library of the Mariengymnasium in Jever, the aria can be made available in a piano reduction for musical practice and thus also performed and played. Previously, the pages in question were only reproduced as a facsimile in an article in the "Göttinger Händel-Beiträge".
Furthermore, with the help of the Jever source, the bars of the basso continuo part in Bellante's aria "Ich brenne zwar" (No. 71), which had previously been missing or added by the editor of the score, could be reconstructed.
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Besetzung
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Vorwort
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Preface
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Verzeichnis der Szenen und Nummern
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Almira, Königin von Kastilien HWV 1. Oper in drei Akten:
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Ouvertüre
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I. Akt
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II. Akt
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III. Akt
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