G. F. Handel's Compositions
HWV Appendix
HWV A1: L'Elpidia, overo Li rivali generosi
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: ?Nicola Haym, after A. Zeno, 1697
- Completed score: 1725
- First performance: 11 May 1725: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket (10
performances to 19 June)
- Revival: 30 November 1725: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket (4
performances to 11 December).
HWV A2: Olibrio or Genserico
- Genre: Opera
- Libretto: After Beregan, 1693
- Composed: ?January 1728
- Notes: A fragment; only part of Act 1 drafted; never completed.
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: ?Rossi, after Zeno, 1722
- Completed score: 1730
- First performance: 4 April 1730: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket (13
performances to 14 May; also 9 June)
- Revival: 28 November 1730: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket (5
performances to 8 December).
- Notes:
- '12 songs changed' at 21 April 1730 performance, for Strada's benefit.
- Several arias changed for 28 November 1730 revival.
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: ?Rossi, after Zeno, 1724
- Completed score: 1731
- First performance: 11 January 1731: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
(4 performances to 23 January)
HWV A5: Titus l'empéreur
- Genre: Opera
- Libretto: In Italian, ? from J. Racine, "Berenice"
- Composed: ? - Oct. - Nov. 1731
- Notes: Fragment; only part of Act 1 drafted; never completed.
HWV A6: Lucio Papirio dittatore
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After Zeno/C.I. Frugoni, 1729
- Completed score: 1732
- First performance: 23 May 1732: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket (4
performances to 6 June)
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After Metastasio, 1728/9
- Completed score: 1732
- First performance: 4 November 1732: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
HWV A8: Semiramide or Semiramis riconosciuta
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After Metatstasio, 1729
- Completed score: 1733
- First performance: 30 October 1733: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
HWV A9: Caio Fabricio
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After Zeno, 1732
- Completed score: 1733
- First performance: 4 December 1733: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After Metatstasio, 1730
- Completed score: 1734
- First performance: 5 January 1734: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After G. G. Barlocci, 1723
- Completed score: 1734
- First performance: 18 December 1734: London, Covent Garden Theatre (3
performances to 28 December)
- Notes: Music entirely by Handel.
- HG edition: 48 (fragment)
- HHA edition: II/Sup. 1
HWV A12: Didone abbandonata
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After Metatstasio, 1726
- Completed score: 1737
- First performance: 13 April 1737: London, Covent Garden Theatre
HWV A13: Alessandro Severo
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: After Zeno, 1717/23
- Completed score: 1738
- First performance: 25 February 1738: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
(5 performances to 11 March; also 30 May)
- Notes: Music entirely by Handel.
- HG edition: 48 (fragment)
HWV A14: Giove in Argo (translation: Jupiter in Argos)
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Libretto: In Italian, after A.M. Lucchini "Giove in Argo",
1719
- Completed score: 24 April 1739
- First performance: 1 May 1739: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket (also
5 May)
- Notes: Music entirely by Handel.
HWV A151-37: Menuets; in various
keys
- Genre: Keyboard
- Notes: Arranged from music of opera arias.
- HHA edition: IV/19
Handel Compositions NOT
Included in the HWV Catalog
(HWV deest; 'deest' is latin for 'missing')
The Dream
or 'Beneath a shady willow'
- Genre: Italian sacred cantata (S; 2-part violins, basso continuo)
- Completed score: ?1703-9
- Notes:
- Identified in the year 2000 at the Royal Academy of Music's (London) library by Professor
Hans Joachim Marx of Hamburg, Germany. The manuscript at the RAM is not in Handel's hand.
- Handel later borrowed from the Gloria
to compose Laudate pueri dominum and Utrecht Jubilate.
- The world premiere full performance of the Gloria
occurred on 3 June 2001 at the International Händel
Göttingen Festival (sung by Dominique Labelle, accompanied by the Philharmonia
Baroque Orchestra, San Francisco, and directed by Nicholas McGegan).
- Genre: Opera (pasticcio)
- Completed score: 1745
- First performance: 14 November, 1745: London, King's Theatre
- Notes: A pasticcio opera containing music by Handel and performed by
the "Middlesex" opera company (named after Lord Middlesex).
- Genre: Italian aria (S)
- Composed: ?London, circa 1712-17
- Genre: Orchestral
- Key: F major
- Composed: circa 1747-8
- Notes: As addition to oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus" (HWV 63) or to Concerto a due cori in F major (HWV 334).
- HHA edition: IV/16
- Genre: Wind ensemble
- Key: G major
- Composed: circa 1746-7
- Borrowings: Independent wind version of the oratorio, "Judas
Maccabeus" march (HWV 63, no. 32a)
- HHA edition: Not included in HHA.
- Genre: Wind ensemble
- Key: C major
- Composed: circa 1741
- Borrowings: Wind version of the oratorio, Samson's (HWV 57) "Dead March."
- HHA edition: Not included in HHA.
- Genre: Italian aria (S)
- Notes: Text apparently macaronic Italian-German.
- Reworked version of the aria from the opera Almira
(HWV 1)
An Oratorio
- Genre: Oratorio (pasticcio)
- Completed score: 1738
- First performance: 28 March 1738: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket;
Handel's benefit performance
- Notes: Bilingual pasticcio, including much music from
"Deborah" (HWV 51), "As pants the
hart" (Chandos Anthem No. 6; HWV 251b), a
Coronation Anthem, and organ concertos.
- A short da capo aria in the style of a gavotte.
- Genre: Opera
- Completed score: 1743
- First performance: 8 November, 1743: London, King's Theatre
- Revival :
- 24 February, 1747: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
- 20 February, 1748: London, King's Theatre, Haymarket
- Notes: Lampugnani arranged music from Handel's "Alessandro" (HWV 21), which was subsequently performed by the
"Middlesex" opera company.
- Another version of the French song (HWV 155) in a
lower key and a simpler bass line.
- Genre: Italian aria (A)
- Composed: London, circa 1712-17
- Genre: Orchestral Suite
- Notes:
- Nine movements.
- Contemporary arrangement, but authenticity uncertain.
- Published by Burrows in 1991.
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