Georg Friedrich Händel
The Occasional Oratorio
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Georg Friedrich Händel
The Occasional Oratorio
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir
- Composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- Edition Study Score
- Publisher Edwin F. Kalmus
- Order no. K01317
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Description:
This work was called Occasional Oratorio because its creation and performance wer occasioned by peculiar passing circumstances. The only date in the autograph is found on the first page: "Overture the Occasional Oratorio Ann 1746." The first performance took placeo nt he 14th of February; the composition must consequently have been completed at the beginning of that year. SATB or SSAATTBB with SSTB Soli