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What (who) is oratorio$55455$ - definition

ORATORIO BY GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL

Athalia (oratorio); Athaliah (oratorio); HWV 52

Occasional Oratorio

An Occasional Oratorio (HWV 62) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, based upon a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after the poetry of John Milton and Edmund Spenser. The work was written in the midst of the Jacobite rising of 1745–1746, the attempt to overthrow Handel's patrons the Hanoverian monarchy under George II and replace them with a Stuart restoration under Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasional_Oratorio

oratorio

LARGE MUSICAL COMPOSITION INCLUDING AN ORCHESTRA, A CHOIR, AND SOLOISTS

Oratorios; Oratorium

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¦ noun (plural oratorios) a large-scale semi-dramatic musical work for orchestra and voices on a sacred theme, performed without costume, scenery, or action.

Origin

Ital., from eccles. L. oratorium 'oratory', from the musical services held in the church of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in Rome.

oratorio

LARGE MUSICAL COMPOSITION INCLUDING AN ORCHESTRA, A CHOIR, AND SOLOISTS

Oratorios; Oratorium

(oratorios)

An oratorio is a long piece of music with a religious theme which is written for singers and an orchestra.

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Athalia (Handel)

Athalia (HWV 52) is an English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Samuel Humphreys based on the play Athalie by Jean Racine. The work was commissioned in 1733 for the Publick Act in Oxford – a commencement ceremony of the University of Oxford, which had offered Handel an honorary doctorate (an honour he declined). The story is based on that of the Biblical queen Athaliah. Athalia, Handel's third oratorio in English, was completed on 7 June 1733, and first performed on 10 July 1733 at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. The Bee (14 July 1733) reported that the performance was "performed with the utmost Applause, and is esteemed equal to the most celebrated of that Gentleman's Performances: there were 3700 Persons present".

Athaliah was first given in London on 1 April 1735 at Covent Garden theatre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athalia (Handel)