Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas
- Instrumentation Solos, Mixed choir (SATB) and Orchestra
- Composer Henry Purcell
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
- Editor Robert Shay
- Lyricist Nahum Tate
- Edition Score (Urtext) Download
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Order no. BA8744-DL
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The opera "Dido and Aeneas", a retelling of the well-known story from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, has established itself as an audience favorite. It owes this to the skill of its composer Henry Purcell and his librettist Nahum Tate, who combine an overriding tragic theme with skillfully inserted comic episodes. Having long believed that the work was conceived in 1689 for performance at a 'School for Young Gentlewomen', scholars have debated the origins of 'Dido' in recent decades, a process that has been hampered by the lack of early musical sources. This edition addresses these challenges by evaluating the earliest sources that reproduce the opera in its surviving form. Surprisingly, these date from the 1770s and 80s, some ninety years after the work was composed. Three key manuscripts - now held in the Bodleian Library Oxford (UK), in the library of Tatton Park, a National Trust institution near Manchester (UK), and in the Wakayama Prefectural Library (Japan) - were all copied from the same source, most likely a manuscript score from 1704, which reappeared in the early 1770s, only to disappear again.
This is the first 'Dido' edition based on the Tatton Park manuscript as the main source. It was made in the second half of the 18th century by Philip Hayes, one of England's most prominent musicians, known in musicology for his meticulous copies of Purcell's music, often from his autograph manuscripts. The Bodleian and Wakayama manuscripts are presented in a new light, and their role in this edition has been reassessed accordingly.
This is the first 'Dido' edition based on the Tatton Park manuscript as the main source. It was made in the second half of the 18th century by Philip Hayes, one of England's most prominent musicians, known in musicology for his meticulous copies of Purcell's music, often from his autograph manuscripts. The Bodleian and Wakayama manuscripts are presented in a new light, and their role in this edition has been reassessed accordingly.
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