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Oratorios And Masses
Acis And Galatea
Acis and Galatea, - a secular oratorio or pastoral serenata, somewhat resembling the masque, was composed by George Frederick Handel at Cannons during his services there from 1718 to 1721 as musical director for the Duke of Chandos, just following his residence with the Earl of Burlington.
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Alexander's Feast
Handel's French biographer, David, remarks with enthusiasm of the master's setting of Dryden's - Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music: We have made our loftiest eulogy when we have said that the music is worthy of the words.
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Apostles
The 'Apostles' is the second of the great oratorios of Sir Edward Elgar and in some ways his most remarkable work. Like 'Gerontius,' it was produced at the festival in Birmingham, being heard there Oct. 3, 1903.
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Arminius
A warrior figures as the hero of each of the finest of the vocal works of Bruch; Odysseus the Greek, Frithjof the Viking, and Arminius the German chieftain.
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Beatitudes
The 'Beatitudes' is the masterwork of César Franck, whom his pupil and biographer, Vincent D'Indy, declares 'The noblest and greatest musician that France has produced since Rameau.'
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Beethoven's Mass In D Major
Sometimes a great work stands out alone, reflecting little of the author's personality, or of the circumstances which surrounded him at the time of its creation.
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Berlioz's Requiem
Hector Berlioz's 'Requiem Mass,' usually known in France as the 'Requiem of General Damrémont,' was composed in 1836 and 1837 at the order of M. de Gasparin, Minister of the Interior, it being purposed to honor the memory of the victims of the three days' Revolution of July, 1830.
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Christus
Liszt refers both to Christus and to the Legend of the Holy Elizabeth as oratorios, but it would be difficult to find two works more widely different in form and character.
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Crusaders
The glory of Denmark is upheld in the domain of music by the achievements of Niels Gade, who was born in Copenhagen in 1817 and died there in 1890.
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Damnation of Faust
The Damnation of Faust had its first American performance Feb. 12, 1880, when it was given by the Symphony Society, assisted by the Oratorio and Arion Societies of New York, under the direction of Dr. L. Damrosch.
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Der Tod Jesu
For many years the most famous of the Passion cantatas which began to be written in the early Eighteenth Century and were afterward turned out in great numbers was the Tod Jesu, or The Death of Jesus, of Karl Heinrich Graun.
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Development Of Oratorio
Castil-Blaze, speaking of the accidental invention of opera near the close of the Sixteenth Century, observes: Thus Christopher Columbus endeavoring to discover Cathay by Cipango found America.
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Development of the Mass
The Mass is the great central rite of the Catholic Church and embodies its fundamental doctrines. The Catholic Church believes and teaches that whenever Mass is celebrated the true body and blood of Christ, really, truly and substantially present under the appearances of bread and wine, are again offered to Almighty God in an unbloody manner.
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Dream of Gerontius
The 'Dream of Gerontius' was the work which established the fame of Sir Edward Elgar, serving it as did for the expression of his first fully developed ideas. He was commissioned to write a long choral work for the Birmingham Triennial Festival of 1900, and on the morning of October 3 a setting of Cardinal Newman's poem was produced.
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Dvorak's Stabat Mater
The years 1878 and 1887 bound the existence of the London Musical Society originated by Sir Joseph Barnby, the English musician and precentor of Eton.
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Ein' Feste Burg
Surely if there were ever two men who might have understood each other they were Martin Luther and Sebastian Bach, alike as they are in many traits of nature — brave and uncompromising, believing thoroughly in the light God had given them, and so, disdainful of the opinion of the world.
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Elijah
Elijah, probably the finest, and assuredly the most popular, work of its kind which had appeared in the fifty years since Haydn's Creation, was first performed Aug. 26, 1846, at Birmingham, England, whose festival Mendelssohn had been invited to conduct.
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First Walpurgis Night
In the volume of romances constituted by the biographies of the composers there is no more delightful page than that upon which is chronicled the friendship which existed between the old poet, Goethe, and the winsome boy, Felix Mendelssohn.
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Franciscus
'Franciscus,' the masterpiece of Edgar Tinel, the Belgian composer, was produced at Malines, Aug. 22, 1888. The text, which treats of the life of St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the order of Franciscan monks, was written by Lodemijk de Koninck, and was translated from the Flemish into English by John Fenton.
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Frithjof
Frithjof, an epic cantata by Max Bruch, was written during the composer's stay at Mannheim, and presented about 1864 at Aix-la-Chapelle.
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German Requiem
Brahms' German Requiem is not a setting of the Catholic Mass for the Dead. It consists of texts taken from the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha of the Lutheran Bible, and is more accurately a cantata or oratorio.
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God's Time Is The Best
God's Time is the Best (in the German, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit), also known as the Actus Tragicus or Mourning Cantata, is one of the works upon which Bach's fame is most surely founded.
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Gounod's Messe Solennelle
That the musician of love and of lovers, who has given to the opera such amorous music as that of 'Faust' and 'Romeo and Juliet,' should have divided his heart equally with the Church, is a paradox about which the world has had much to say.
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Hora Novissima
One of America's too few occasions for satisfaction in her musical achievement is found in Horatio William Parker's 'Hora Novissima' ('In the last hour').
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Hymn Of Praise
Many German cities celebrated the year 1840, the four hundredth anniversary of the year that Gutenberg set up his first rude printing press and put into being one of the greatest of all factors for progress.
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Israel In Egypt
Handel's oratorio, Israel in Egypt and its history is in more than one particular of very unusual interest.
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Judas Maccabaeus
Next to the Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus, in this country at least, is the most popular and frequently performed of the Handel oratorios.
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Kingdom
The 'Kingdom,' produced at the Birmingham (England) Festival, Oct. 3, 1906, is a continuation or sequel to the 'Apostles,' and there has also been promised a sequel to the 'Kingdom.'
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L'Allegro
On Feb. 27, 1740, a cantata entitled L'Allegro, il Pensieroso ed il Moderato was presented at Lincoln's Inn Theatre. The Milton lover at once raises inquiring eyebrows over the third division, Il Moderato?
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Legend Of The Holy Elizabeth
Franz Liszt, generally believed to be the greatest piano virtuoso of all time and as well a composer of distinction, has added two notable works to the ranks of the standard oratorios.
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