The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69 (Handel, George Frideric)

		Composition Year 28 June - 5 July 1750 Genre Categories Secular oratorios; Oratorios; For 4 voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; English language

Sheet Music

• Full Score (1)
• Vocal Score (1)

Full Score

 Complete Score
*#18820 - 19.95MB, 112 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 1324x⇩

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Ivdruiz (2008/7/14)

Editor:

Friedrich Chrysander (1826-1901)

Publisher Info.:

Georg Friedrich Händels Werke. Band 18.
Leipzig: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1863. Plate H.W. 18.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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Vocal Score

 Complete Score
*#39719 - 3.72MB, 110 pp. -  2.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (1) - C/V/C - 1055x⇩

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operalala (2009/9/20)

Language:

German / English

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Unidentified publisher, n.d.(ca.1900).

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General Information

Work Title	The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69
Alternative Title

Composer	Handel, George Frideric
Opus/Catalogue Number	HWV 69
Year/Date of Composition	28 June - 5 July 1750
Librettist	By Robert Lowth, 1734-7, adapted, probably by Morell.
Language	English
Piece Style	Baroque

Misc. Comments

Sections

• Part 1

• 1. Overture
• 2. Accompagnato: See, Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain (Pleasure)
• 3. Aria: Come, blooming boy, with me repair (Pleasure)
• 4. Aria: There the brisk sparkling nectar repair (Pleasure)
• 5. Solo and Chorus

• 5a. Solo: While for thy arms that Beauty glows (Pleasure)
• 5b. Chorus: Seize, seize these blessings, blooming boy! (Chorus)

• Recitative: Away, mistaken wretch, away! (Virtue)
• 6. Aria: This manly youth's exalted mind (Virtue)
• Recitative: Rise youth! exalt thyself and me (Virtue)
• 7. Aria: Go, assert thy heav'nly race (Virtue)
• Recitative: In peace, in war, pursue thy country's good (Virtue)
• 8. Solo and Chorus

• 8a. Solo: So shalt thou gain immortal praise (Virtue)
• 8b. Chorus: The golden trump of Fame

• Recitative: Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage? (Pleasure)
• 9. Solo and Chorus

• 9a. Solo: Turn thee, youth, to joy and love (Pleasure)
• 9b. Chorus: Why, ah why this fond delay?

• Part 2

• Recitative: Short is my way (Pleasure, Hercules)
• 10. Aria: Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay (Hercules)
• 11. Aria: Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (an Attendant of Pleasure's)
• Recitative: Oh! whither, Reason, dost thou fly? (Hercules)
• 12. Trio: Where shall I go? (Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules)
• 13. Accompagnato: Mount, mount the steep ascent! (Virtue)
• 14. Aria: Mount, mount the steep ascent (Virtue)
• 15. Chorus: Arise, arise!
• Recitative: The sounds breathe fire celestial (Hercules)
• 16. Aria: Lead, Goddess, lead the way (Hercules)
• 17. Chorus: Virtue will place thee in that blest abode