Samson HWV 57
Oratorio in three acts
by George Frideric Handel
4-Part - Sheet Music

Solo voices, choir, orchestra (8Soprano Voice Solo, Alto Voice Solo, 4Tenor Voice Solo, 2 Bass Voice Solo, SATB Choir, 2 Ob, 2 bassoon, 2 Hn, 2 Trp, timpani, 2 V, Va, Bassi(Vc, double bass, bassoon, Lt-B, harpisc., Org))

SKU: BA.BA04099

Oratorio in three acts. Composed by George Frideric Handel. Edited by Hans Dieter Clausen. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Halle Handel Edition (HHA) Series I, Voume 18, Nos. 1+2. Complete edition, Score. Composed 1743. HWV 57. Duration 3 hours. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04099. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04099).

ISBN 9790006550111. 33 x 25.7 cm inches. Text Language: English. Preface: Hans Dieter Clausen. Text: Newburgh Hamilton.

Handel composed Samson directly after completing the "Messiah".
After its premiere in 1743 in the Covent Garden Theatre in London, the work rapidly became one of the composer’s most successful oratorios alongside "Esther" and "Judas Maccabaeus". This probably had as much to do with the popular Old Testament story of the libretto as with Handel’s masterly shaping of the arias and choruses.

By including some movements in the appendix, this edition makes it possible for the first time to perform the work in its original 1741 version.
The edition is based on the complete edition volume of the "Halle Handel Edition" (BA 4099), offering the complete music text of the oratorio for the first time.

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