Messiah 1741 HWV 56
Urtext
[solos,mix ch,orch] duration: 120' solos: SATB – choir: SATB – 0.(2-4).0.(1-2) – 0.2.0.0 – timp – str – bc
Description
Messiah 1741 – new light on Händel’s masterpiece
The focus of this new edition is the Messiah as first conceived by the composer in 1741: before its first performance in Dublin in 1742, before the first London performances of the mid 1740s, before the final Foundling Hospital performances in the late 1750s. The editor succeeds in creating a 21st-century edition from the perspective of 1741, making clear that Messiah was a genius hit from the start.
Messiah 1741 – the first and only complete edition of Händel's autograph score
- Thorough information on Händel's performance practice in 1741 (including topics such as orchestration, continuo, text underlay and specific questions on interpretation)
- It offers a reconstruction of the wind parts according to contemporary sources
- Piano vocal score with contemporary vocal ornamentation
- First edition including the German text by Herder – a monument of the German enlightenment – which is contentwise and phonetically closer to Jennens’ text than any other translation, therefore being a perfect singable alternative
- The appendix contains additionally the most popular and important aria versions composed after 1741 for practical reasons.
Audio samples: The Dallas Bach Society Chorus & Orchestra, dir. James Richman (Onyx, 2024)
BM 420
Extract
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24 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 136 g / stapled
PB 5560
score
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292 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 1215 g / softbound
EB 8450
piano vocal score
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300 pages / 19 x 27 cm / 804 g / softbound
OB 5560-11
Basso continuo
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96 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 402 g / stapled
OB 5560-15
violin 1
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64 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 272 g / stapled
OB 5560-16
violin 2
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64 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 272 g / stapled
OB 5560-19
viola
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60 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 255 g / stapled
OB 5560-26
basso (cello/double bass)
EAN: 9790004344156
60 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 251 g / stapled
OB 5560-30
wind parts
EAN: 9790004344163
134 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 548 g / folder
Description
Description
Messiah 1741 – new light on Händel’s masterpiece
The focus of this new edition is the Messiah as first conceived by the composer in 1741: before its first performance in Dublin in 1742, before the first London performances of the mid 1740s, before the final Foundling Hospital performances in the late 1750s. The editor succeeds in creating a 21st-century edition from the perspective of 1741, making clear that Messiah was a genius hit from the start.
Messiah 1741 – the first and only complete edition of Händel's autograph score
- Thorough information on Händel's performance practice in 1741 (including topics such as orchestration, continuo, text underlay and specific questions on interpretation)
- It offers a reconstruction of the wind parts according to contemporary sources
- Piano vocal score with contemporary vocal ornamentation
- First edition including the German text by Herder – a monument of the German enlightenment – which is contentwise and phonetically closer to Jennens’ text than any other translation, therefore being a perfect singable alternative
- The appendix contains additionally the most popular and important aria versions composed after 1741 for practical reasons.
Audio samples: The Dallas Bach Society Chorus & Orchestra, dir. James Richman (Onyx, 2024)