An Occasional Oratorio ( HWV 62) is an oratorio by Georg Friedrich Handel , which is based on a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton based on a poem by John Milton and Edmund Spenser .
Handel hastily composed the Occasional Oratorio in January and February 1746, the premiere took place on February 14, 1746. It contains 44 sentences and consists of 3 parts. The famous chorus Prepare the Hymn , a paraphrase of Psalm 81: 1–2, is the 26th movement, 2nd part. Handel took the second minuet of the fireworks music from this oratorio.
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C. Hogwood, Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks Cambridge University Press p. 133
Hans Joachim Marx : Handel's oratorios, odes and serenatas: a compendium.
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Operas
The change of luck achieved in Krohnen, or: Almira, Queen of Castilien (HWV 1) |
The love attained through blood and murder, or: Nero (HWV 2) |
The happy Florindo (HWV 3) |
The transformed Daphne (HWV 4) |
Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria (Rodrigo) (HWV 5) |
Agrippina (HWV 6) |
Rinaldo (HWV 7a / b) |
Il pastor fido (HWV 8a / b / c) |
Teseo (HWV 9) |
Lucio Cornelio Silla (HWV 10) |
Amadigi di Gaula (HWV 11) |
Radamisto (HWV 12a / b) |
Il Muzio Scevola (HWV 13) |
Il Floridante (HWV 14) |
Ottone, re di Germania (HWV 15) |
Flavio, re de 'Longobardi (HWV 16) |
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (HWV 17) |
Tamerlano (HWV 18) |
Rodelinda, regina de 'Langobardi (HWV 19) |
Publio Cornelio Scipione (HWV 20) |
Alessandro (HWV 21) |
Admeto, re di Tessaglia (HWV 22) |
Riccardo I., re d'Inghilterra (HWV 23) |
Siroe, re di Persia (HWV 24) |
Tolomeo, re di Egitto (HWV 25) |
Lotario (HWV 26) |
Partenope (HWV 27) |
Poro, re dell'Indie (HWV 28) |
Ezio (HWV 29) |
Sosarme, re di Media (HWV 30) |
Orlando (HWV 31) |
Arianna in Creta (HWV 32) |
Ariodante (HWV 33) |
Alcina (HWV 34) |
Atalanta (HWV 35) |
Arminio (HWV 36) |
Giustino (HWV 37) |
Berenice, regina d'Egitto (HWV 38) |
Faramondo (HWV 39) |
Serse (HWV 40) |
Imeneo (HWV 41) |
Deidamia (HWV 42)
Drama music
The Alchemist (HWV 43) |
Comus (HWV 44) |
Alceste (HWV 45)
Oratorios
Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (HWV 46a) |
Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità (HWV 46b) |
La Resurrezione (HWV 47) |
Jesus tortured and dying for the sin of the world (Brockes Passion) (HWV 48) |
Acis and Galatea (Masque, HWV 49a / b) |
Esther (Haman and Mordecai) (HWV 50a / b) |
Deborah (HWV 51) |
Athalia (HWV 52) |
Saul (HWV 53) |
Israel in Egypt (Exodus) (HWV 54) |
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (HWV 55) |
Messiah (HWV 56) |
Samson (HWV 57) |
Semele (HWV 58) |
Joseph and his Brethren (HWV 59) |
Hercules (HWV 60) |
Belshazzar (HWV 61) |
An Occasional Oratorio (HWV 62) |
Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63) |
Joshua (HWV 64) |
Alexander Balus (HWV 65) |
Susanna (HWV 66) |
Solomon (HWV 67) |
Theodora (HWV 68) |
The Choice of Hercules (HWV 69) |
Jephtha (HWV 70) |
The Triumph of Time and Truth (HWV 71)
Serenaten
Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (HWV 72) |
Il Parnasso in festa (HWV 73)
Pasticci and fragments
L'Elpidia, ovvero Li rivali generosi (HWV A 1) |
Genserico (HWV A 2) |
Ormisda (HWV A 3) |
Venceslao (HWV A 4) |
Titus l'empéreur (HWV A 5) |
Lucio Papirio dittatore (HWV A 6) |
Catone (HWV A 7) |
Semiramide riconosciuta (HWV A 8) |
Caio Fabbricio (HWV A 9) |
Arbace (HWV A 10) |
Oreste (HWV A 11) |
Didone abbandonata (HWV A 12) |
Alessandro Severo (HWV A 13) |
Giove in Argo (HWV A 14)
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