Handel's Major Work List
(in order of
composition)
Key to Handel's Locations
| |
Hamburg |
| |
Italy |
| |
Hanover (and Düsseldorf) |
| |
London |
| |
Cannons |
| |
Travels on the Continent |
| |
Dublin |
This chronology attempts to list Handel's works in order of composition. It
has been compiled using Handel: A Documentary Biography by Otto Erich Deutsch (Cassell, 1955), The New Grove Handel by Winton
Dean and Anthony Hicks (Macmillan, 1983) and Handel by Donald Burrows
(Oxford, 1994).
However, some instrumental works with opus numbers are
shown by year of publication instead of composition, as several of these were
compiled by Walsh from previously existing material. Some of the dates can only
be approximated.
The operas Nero, Florindo and Daphne are lost.
| Year |
Composition |
Handel's
Location
(footnotes) |
| 1703 |
|
Hamburg |
| 1704 |
Almira
[Nero] |
| 1705 |
|
| 1706 |
[Florindo]
[Daphne] |
| |
Florence? |
| 1707 |
Il Trionfo
del Tempo
Dixit Dominus
Laudate Pueri
Nisi Dominus
Latin Motets
Italian Cantatas (approx. 100) |
Rome |
| Rodrigo |
Florence |
| 1708 |
La
Resurrezione |
Rome |
| Aci
Galatea e Polifemo |
Naples |
| 1709 |
Agrippina |
Venice |
| 1710 |
|
(1) |
| 1711 |
Rinaldo |
London |
| |
Hanover |
| 1712 |
|
Il Pastor
Fido
Teseo |
London |
| 1713 |
Utrecht Te
Deum
Utrecht Jubilate
Eternal Source of Light Divine
Silla |
| 1714 |
|
| 1715 |
Brockes
Passion
Amadigi |
| 1716 |
|
| 1717 |
Water Music
|
Chandos
Anthems
‘Cannons’ Te Deum |
Cannons |
| 1718 |
Acis and
Galatea
Esther |
| 1719 |
|
(2) |
| 1720 |
Radamisto
Suites de Pièces vol.1 |
London |
| 1721 |
Act III of Muzio
Scevola
Floridante |
| 1722 |
Ottone |
| 1723 |
Flavio |
| 1724 |
Giulio
Cesare
Tamerlano |
| 1725 |
Rodelinda |
| 1726 |
Scipione
Alessandro
Admeto |
| 1727 |
Riccardo
Primo
4 Coronation Anthems |
| 1728 |
Siroe
Tolomeo |
| 1729 |
|
(3) |
| Lotario |
London |
| 1730 |
Partenope |
| 1731 |
Poro
Ezio |
| 1732 |
Sosarme
Orlando
Sonatas op.1 |
| 1733 |
Deborah
Athalia
Arianna in Creta
Sonatas op.2
Suites de Pièces vol.2 |
| 1734 |
Parnasso in
Festa
Ariodante
Terpsicore
6 Concerti Grossi op.3 |
| 1735 |
Alcina |
| 1736 |
Alexander’s
Feast
Atalanta
Sing Unto God
Giustino
Arminio |
| 1737 |
Berenice
Il Trionfo del Tempo |
| |
(4) |
Faramondo
The ways of Zion do Mourn |
London |
| 1738 |
Serse
Saul
Israel in Egypt
Organ Concertos op.4 |
| 1739 |
Trio Sonatas
op.5
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
12 Concerto Grossi op.6 |
| 1740 |
L’Allegro
il Penseroso ed il Moderato |
| |
(5) |
Imeneo
Deidamia
Organ Concertos op.7 |
London |
| 1741 |
Messiah |
| 1742 |
|
Dublin |
| Samson |
London |
| 1743 |
Semele
Dettingen Te Deum
Dettingen Anthem
Jospeh and his Brethren |
| 1744 |
Hercules
Belshazzar |
| 1745 |
Comus |
| 1746 |
Occasional
Oratorio
Judas Maccabaeus |
| 1747 |
Alexander
Balus
Joshua
3 Hymns |
| 1748 |
Solomon
Susanna |
| 1749 |
Music
for the Royal Fireworks
Foundling Hospital Anthem
Theodora |
| 1750 |
Alceste
The Choice of Hercules |
| |
(6) |
| 1751 |
Jephtha |
London |
| 1752 |
|
| 1753 |
|
| 1754 |
|
| 1755 |
|
| 1756 |
|
| 1757 |
The Triumph
of Time and Truth |
| 1758 |
|
| 1759 |
|
Footnotes to Table
(1) |
After departing Venice, Handel visits Innsbruck en route to Hanover (then
Halle and Düsseldorf) |
(2) |
Düsseldorf, Halle, Dresden |
(3) |
Venice, Bologna (Florence?, Siena?, Rome?), Hamburg, Hanover, Halle |
(4) |
Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) via Tunbridge Wells |
(5) |
Haarlem |
(6) |
The Hague, Haarlem, Deventer (Halle?) |
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