Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

The Serenata in tre parti Parnasso in festa was first performed on the occasion of the wedding between Princess Anne and Prince William IV of Orange in March 1734. The music is largely based on the En...

'Giulio Cesare in Egitto' is by far Handel's most frequently performed opera owing its success not least to its subject matter, one of the best known love stories in world history. Already during Hand...

With his 'La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno' ('Beauty Reformed in the Triumph of Time and Enlightenment'), HWV 46a, the 22-year-old Handel notched up one of his greatest suc...

In the autograph, the 'little Cecilia Ode', composed in September 1739, is superscribed with 'Song'; the title used in contemporary sources, such as the textual source by John Dryden, and taken over b...

In the almost six months from 14 August 1736 to 27 January 1737, George Frideric Handel had achieved unprecedented productivity in his operatic oeuvre with the composition of three operas. In addition...

Volume 14 of Series III (Church Music) of the Halle Handel Edition contains two anthems which Handel composed in 1749 and which are his last contributions to the genre of the English anthem. He perfor...

The critical edition presents the music to the verse comedy 'Soliman second, ou Les Trois Sultanes' by Charles-Simon Favart (1710-1792), which was performed before the Viennese courtly audience in the...

Rameau's only extant opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has come down to us in two versions (1745 and 1746), that of 1745 having long been regarded as lost. Volume IV.12 of the 'Opera omnia Rameau'...

Rameau's only surviving opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has survived in two versions (1745 and 1746), whereby the 1745 version was long considered lost. Volume IV.12 of the "Opera omnia Rameau"...

> Instrumental numbers in order of performance, but also grouped by key in the list of contents, enabling them to be combined freely into orchestral suites > Based on the first scholarly-critical edit...

The new scholarly-critical edition of the score of Rameau's 'ballet héroïque' Les Indes galantes finally clears up its convoluted source history. At the first performance, on 23 August 1735, it consis...

The new critical edition of the score has finally shed light on the complex history of its transmission: at its first performance on August 23, 1735, Rameau's "ballet héroïque" Les Indes galantes stil...

Generalbass-Aussetzung: Wolfgang Hirschmann

Rameau's only surviving opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has survived in two versions (1745 and 1746), whereby the 1745 version was long considered lost. Volume IV.12 of the series 'Opera omnia R...

'Pigmalion' was the first example of a one-act ballet, preceded by an overture, composed specifically for the Académie royale de musique. With this work, Rameau turned to the form of the petit opéra....

“Les Boréades", edited by Sylvie Bouissou, the project leader of the Rameau Complete Edition and a central figure in international Rameau research, is a milestone – at last this exceptional work is ac...

The ballet “Les Fêtes d'Hébé” deals with the talents that are usually the subject of the Opéra and are placed at the service of love on stage: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), song an...

The ballet “Les Fêtes d'Hébé” deals with the talents that are usually the subject of the Opéra and are placed at the service of love on stage: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), song an...

Les Fêtes d'Hébé or "Les Talents Lyriques" (1739) belong to the highly opulent ballet opera genre, which was only common in 18th century courtly France. Rameau's "Indes Galantes" (1735) is often consi...

Les Fêtes d'Hébé or "Les Talents Lyriques" (1739) belong to the highly opulent genre of ballet opera, which was only common in 18th century courtly France. Rameau's "Indes Galantes" (1735) is often re...