Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76, is a cantata composed by George Frideric Handel in 1739. The title of the cantata refers to Saint Cecilia, the patron...
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Purcell Welcome to all the pleasures Hail! Bright Cecilia George Frederic Handel Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, setting a poem by John Dryden This disambiguation...
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Handel (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Alexander's Feast); Charles Gounod (St. Cecilia Mass); as well as Benjamin Britten, who was born on her feast day (Hymn...
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written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke (whose score is now lost) set the original ode to music. Handel composed the music in January...
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Cecilia, hail to thee" The work was edited for publication by Edward Francis Rimbault. Welcome to all the pleasures Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (Handel)...
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Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687) is the first of two odes written by the English Poet Laureate John Dryden for the annual festival of Saint Cecilia's Day...
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the former, Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1739) (set to texts by John Dryden) and Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (1713) are noteworthy. For his secular...
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arias; odes and serenatas; solo and trio sonatas; 18 concerti grossi; and 12 organ concertos. Collected editions of Handel's works include the Händel-Gesellschaft...
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were performed on 22 November, St Cecilia's Day, during performances of Alexander's Feast and Ode for St Cecilia's Day; two more on 13 December and another...
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Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (HWV 74) is a secular cantata composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Ambrose Philips, of which the first...
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