Handel works directory

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The Handel Works Directory (HWV) is the most common directory of the works of George Frideric Handel . It is organized thematically and was presented by Bernd Baselt between 1978 and 1986 as a list of the works of Georg Friedrich Handel in the Handel Yearbook (HJb). Since then there have been some additions and corrections, but the original numbering is still used.

The thematic catalog represents the opening bars of each individual work and provides extensive information (e.g. on handwritten sources, early prints, etc.).

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Numbers category
1-42 Operas
43-45, 218 Incidental music
46-48, 50-71 Oratorios
49, 72-76 Serenates and Masques
77-177 Cantatas
178-199 Italian duets
200-201 Italian trios
202-210, 269-277, 284-286 Hymns
211-217, 219-227 Italian arias
226, 228 English songs
229 German church cantatas
230, 233, 234 Italian sacred cantatas
231, 232, 235-245, 269-274, 276, 277 Latin church music
246-268 Hymns
278-283 Hymns of praise
287-311, 343 Concerti
312-335 Concerti grossi
336-345, 347-356, 413 Orchestral works
357-379, 406-409, 412, 419-421 Solo sonatas
380-405 Trio sonatas
346, 410, 411, 414-418, 422-425 Works for woodwind ensemble
426-612 Piano pieces

abstract

number title
HWV 1 Almira, Queen of Castile
HWV 2 Love, or Nero , obtained through blood and murder
HWV 3 The happy Florindo
HWV 4 The transformed Daphne
HWV 5 Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria or Rodrigo
HWV 6 Agrippina
HWV 7a Rinaldo (1)
HWV 7b Rinaldo (2)
HWV 8a Il pastor fido (1)
HWV 8b Terpsicore, prologue to Il pastor fido
HWV 8c Il pastor fido (2)
HWV 9 Teseo
HWV 10 Lucio Cornelio Silla
HWV 11 Amadigi di Gaula
HWV 12a Radamisto (1)
HWV 12b Radamisto (2)
HWV 13 Muzio Scevola
HWV 14 Il Floridante
HWV 15 Ottone, re di Germania
HWV 16 Flavio, re de 'Longobardi
HWV 17 Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Julius Caesar
HWV 18 Tamerlano
HWV 19 Rodelinda, regina de Langobardi
HWV 20 Publio Cornelio Scipione
HWV 21 Alessandro
HWV 22 Admeto, re di Tessaglia
HWV 23 Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra or Richard the First, King of England
HWV 24 Siroe, re di Persia
HWV 25 Tolomeo, re di Egitto
HWV 26 Lotario
HWV 27 Partenope
HWV 28 Poro, re dell 'Indie
HWV 29 Ezio
HWV 30 Sosarme, re di Media or Sosarme, king of media
HWV 31 Orlando
HWV 32 Arianna in Creta
HWV 33 Ariodante
HWV 34 Alcina
HWV 35 Atalanta
HWV 36 Arminio
HWV 37 Giustino
HWV 38 Berenice
HWV 39 Faramondo
HWV 40 Serse or Xerxes
HWV 41 Imeneo
HWV 42 Deidamia
HWV 43 The Alchemist , intermediate music for Ben Jonson's comedy
HWV 44 There is blissfull shade and bow'rs , epilogue to John Milton's play
HWV 45 Alceste , intermediatemusicfor Tobias Smollett's play
HWV 46a The trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
HWV 46b The trionfo del Tempo e della Verità
HWV 47 Oratorio per la Resurrezione di Nostro Signor Gesù
HWV 48 Jesus and Brockes Passion, tortured and dying for the sin of the world
HWV 49a Acis and Galatea (1)
HWV 49b Acis and Galatea (2)
HWV 50a Esther (Haman and Mordecai) (1)
HWV 50b Esther (2)
HWV 51 Deborah
HWV 52 Athalia
HWV 53 Saul
HWV 54 Israel in Egypt or Israel in Egypt
HWV 55 L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
HWV 56 Messiah or The Messiah
HWV 57 Samson
HWV 58 Semele
HWV 59 Joseph and his Brethren
HWV 60 Hercules
HWV 61 Belshazzar
HWV 62 To Occasional Oratorio
HWV 63 Judas Maccabaeus
HWV 64 Joshua
HWV 65 Alexander Baloos
HWV 66 Susanna
HWV 67 Solomon or Salomon
HWV 68 Theodora
HWV 69 The Choice of Hercules
HWV 70 Jephthah
HWV 71 The Triumph of Time and Truth
HWV 72 Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
HWV 73 Il Parnasso in festa
HWV 74 Eternal source of light divine
HWV 75 Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick or Das Alexanderfest or Die Macht der Musik
HWV 76 From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony
HWV 77 Ah, che pur troppo e vero
HWV 78 Ah! crudel, nel pianto mio
HWV 79 Dianna Cacciatrice: Alla caccia
HWV 80 Allor ch'io dissi addio
HWV 81 Alpestre monte
HWV 82 Il duello amoroso
HWV 83 Aminta e Fillide
HWV 84 Aure soavi, e liete
HWV 85 Venus and Adonis
HWV 86 Bella ma ritrosetta
HWV 87 Carco semper di gloria
HWV 88 Care selve, aure grate
HWV 89 Cecilia, volgi un sguardo
HWV 90 Chi rapi la pace al core
HWV 91a Clori, degli occhi miei (1)
HWV 91b Clori, degli occhi miei (2)
HWV 92 Clori, mia bella Clori
HWV 93 Clori, Clori, ove be
HWV 94 Clori, si ch'io t'adoro
HWV 95 Clori, vezzosa Clori
HWV 96 Clori, Tirsi e Fileno
HWV 97 Crudel tiranno Cupid
HWV 98 Cuopre valley volta cielo
HWV 99 Deliro Amoroso
HWV 100 There sete ardente afflitto
HWV 101a Dal fatale momento (1)
HWV 101b Dal fatale moment (2)
HWV 102a Dalla guerra Amorosa (1)
HWV 102b Dalla guerra amorosa (2)
HWV 103 Deh! lasciata e vita
HWV 104 Del bell'idolo mio
HWV 105 Armida abbandonata
HWV 106 Dimmi, o mio cor
HWV 107 Dite, mie piante
HWV 108 Dolce mio ben, s'io taccio
HWV 109a Dolce pure d'amor l'affanno (1)
HWV 109b Dolce pure d'amor l'affanno (2)

Earlier directories

Earlier lists of Handel's works exist, among others:

  • John Mainwaring (London 1760), translated into German by Johann Mattheson (Hamburg 1761)
  • Charles Burney (London 1785), German by JJ Eschenburg (Berlin / Stettin 1785)
  • WS Rockstro (London 1883)
  • WC Smith (HJb 1956)
  • AC Bell (1972)

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