4 résultats pour "oratorios"

• George Frideric Handel I INTRODUCTION Handel's Water Music In addition to his popular operas and oratorios, German-born composer George Frideric Handel wrote music in the 1700s for the church and for royal celebrations.

  During the 1720s and 1730s Handel worked primarily as a composer and producer of operas for the London stage. This extremely productive phase of his career beganwith the opening of the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1719. The Royal Academy was founded with the support of the king and aristocratic subscribers for theproduction of Italian operas. Its directors sent Handel to continental Europe to hire some of the world’s greatest singers. Handel was not the only composer writingoperas for Aca...

• ORATORIOS de J.-S. Bach - résumé, analyse

• Haendel, Georg Friedrich - compositeur de musique.

  Compositeur de plus de quarante « opere serie », de vingt-deux oratorios et de deux passions, Haendel maîtrisait dans la musique vocale la souplesse mélodique, l'intensité dramatique dans l'expression des sentiments et l'amplitude des chœurs. Sa musique instrumentale est d'égale qualité. Influencée par l'école italienne, elle donne aux violons des parties fluides et virtuoses et tempère l'amplitude, voire la grandiloquence de certains passages, comme dans Musique pour les feux d'artifice royau...

• George Frideric Handel.

  Handel’s most important contribution to music history undoubtedly lies in his oratorios. Although the genre had existed in the 17th century, Handel seems to haveinvented the special type known as English oratorio, with its dazzling choruses. His influence on later generations can be seen most clearly in the history of the oratorio:Handel’s Messiah is one of only a few 18th-century works to remain in the performance repertory from its composer’s lifetime until today. The oratorios of later comp...