Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (Handel, George Frideric)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts
Composition Year 1718, revised 1732, 1739
Genre Categories Serenatas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; [25 more...]Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; English language; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra (arr); Scores featuring the voice (arr); Scores featuring mixed chorus (arr); Scores featuring the orchestra (arr); For voices and chorus with orchestra (arr); For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For harpsichord (arr); Scores featuring the harpsichord (arr); For female chorus, piano (arr); Scores featuring female chorus (arr); For chorus with keyboard (arr); For organ (arr); Scores featuring the organ (arr); For 3 recorders (arr); For 3 players (arr); Scores featuring the recorder (arr); For trumpet, organ (arr); Scores featuring the trumpet (arr); For 2 players (arr)

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Full Scores

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Publisher. Info. London: John Walsh, n.d.(ca.1743).
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 Complete Score
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Editor Friedrich Chrysander (1826–1901)
Publisher. Info. Georg Friedrich Händels Werke. Band 3
Leipzig: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1858. Plate H.W. 3.
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Overture

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Recitative and Aria: Ye verdant plains; Hush, hush (No.3)

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Misc. Notes The opening recit and aria; music input using Denemo, typesetting by LilyPond
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Parts

⇒ 7 more: Flute/Recorder 2 • Oboe 1 • Oboe 2 • Viola • Violin 1 • Violin 2 • Continuo

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 Oboe 2
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Selections (Nos.1, 2)

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Copyist Johann Gottfried Grundig (ca.1706–1773)
Johann Gottlieb Morgenstern (1687–1763)
Johann Gottlieb Haußstädler (ca.1730–ca.1800)
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.(ca.1731-55).
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Misc. Notes Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl): Mus.2410-F-10
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Overture

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 Violins I/II
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Recitative and Aria: Ye verdant plains; Hush, hush (No.3)

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⇒ 4 more: Piccolo • Violins I • Violins II • Basso (Cellos, Basses, Keyboard)

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 Violins I
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Editor Richard Shann
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Misc. Notes The opening recit and aria; music input using Denemo, typesetting by LilyPond
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Vocal Scores

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Arranger Henry Rowley Bishop (1786–1855), piano reduction
Editor 2nd edition
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Arranger Vincent Novello (1781–1861), piano reduction
Language English
Publisher. Info. London: Novello, Ewer & Co., n.d.(ca.1865).
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Editor Joseph Barnby (1838–1896)
Publisher. Info. London: Novello, Ewer & Co., n.d.
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Arranger Friedrich Chrysander (1826–1901), reduction
Language English / German
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Edition Peters, n.d. Plate 11433.
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1965).Plate K 6208.
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Misc. Notes Possibly first issued by Rieter-Biedermann in the 1860s and later reissued by Peters.
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Selections

Editor First edition
Publisher. Info. London: I. Walsh, n.d.
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Misc. Notes Some pages are engraved in a different (later 18th century) style, as though this is a later imprint of old plates with some replaced.
Contains numbers 3-8, 11-15, 16b, 17, 19, 23.
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Editor Ebenezer Prout (1835–1909)
Language English
Publisher. Info. Songs and Airs of G.F. Handel, Vol.I: For High Voice (pp.15-25)
Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1905. Plate ML-1080-81.
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Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
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Arranger William Horsley (1774–1858)
Publisher. Info. London: J. B. Cramer, Addison & Beale, n.d. Plate 809.
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Editor Ebenezer Prout (1835–1909)
Publisher. Info. Songs and Airs of G.F. Handel, Vol.II: For Low Voice (pp.6-12)
Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1905. Plate ML-1118.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

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For Voices, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (Mozart)

⇒ 9 more: Flute 1, 2 • Oboe 1/2 • Clarinet 1/2 • Bassoon 1/2 • Horn 1/2 • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos/Basses

Arranger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Editor Berthold Tours (1838–1897)
Publisher. Info. London: Novello, n.d.
Reprinted Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d.(1987-2018). Catalog A2304.
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For Voices, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra (Mozart)
Arranger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Editor Wettgesang
Language German
Translator Gottfried van Swieten (1733–1803), German text
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Misc. Notes Nos.4, 12 in the Mozart arrangement
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For Piano (Rimbault)
Arranger Edward Francis Rimbault (1816–1876)
Publisher. Info. London: D'Almaine and Co., n.d.(ca.1850). Plate 13,455.
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Ouverture

For Harpsichord

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Chorus: Oh the pleasure of the plains (Act 1, No.2)

For Female Chorus and Piano (Diack)
Arranger John Michael Diack (1869–1946)
Publisher. Info. The Lyric Collection of Choral Music, No.1583.
London: Paterson's Publications Ltd., 1929. Plate L.C. 1583.
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Chorus: Wretched Lovers (Act 2, No.10)

For Organ (Best)
Arranger William Thomas Best (1826–1897)
Publisher. Info. Arrangements from the Scores of the Great Masters, Vol.1 (pp.43-44)
London: Novello, Ewer & Co., n.d. Plate 2229.
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Aria: Would you gain the tender creature (Act 2, No.15)

For 3 Recorders (Tennent)

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For Trumpet and Organ (Rondeau)
Arranger Michel Rondeau
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Libretti

Publisher. Info. London: J. Watts, n.d.(ca.1765).
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Misc. Notes Also containing libretto for Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76. Royal College of Music Library, London (GB-Lcm): L4/2
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Publisher. Info. London: J. Watts, n.d.(ca.1769).
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Misc. Notes Also containing libretto for Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76. Royal College of Music Library, London (GB-Lcm): L4/1
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General Information

Work Title Acis and Galatea
Alternative. Title
Name Translations Ացիս և Գալատեա; Acis i Galatea (Händel); 아시스와 갈라테아; Acis y Galatea; Aci e Galatea; [7 more...]Acis ve Galatea; Acis és Galatea; Акид и Галатея; 阿西斯与加拉蒂亚; 阿西斯與加拉蒂亞; エイシスとガラテア; Acis and Galatea (Handel)
Name Aliases Acis e Galatea; Acis et Galatée
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 8440152140007311100004; GND: 300063970; BNF: 15610835z
Composer Handel, George Frideric
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. HWV 49
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IGH 2
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 acts:
  • Act 1.
1. Overture
2. Chorus: Oh the pleasure of the plains (Shepherds, Nymphs)
3. Recitative and Aria (Galatea)
a. Recitative: Ye verdant plains
b. Aria: Hush, hush, ye pretty warbling quire
4. Aria (Acis): Where shall I seek the charming faie
5. Recitative and Aria (Damon)
a. Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay
b. Aria: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing
6. Recitative and Aria (Acis)
a. Recitative: Lo! here my love
b. Aria: Love in her eyes sits playing
7. Recitative and Aria (Galatea)
a. Recitative: Oh! didst thou know the pains
b. Aria: As when the dove
8. Duet (Acis, Galatea): Happy we
9. Chorus (Shepherds, Nymphs): Happy we
  • Act 2
10. Chorus (Shepherds, Nymphs): Wretched lovers
11. Recitative (Polyphemus): I rage, I melt
12. Aria (Polyphemus): O ruddier than the cherry
13. Recitative (Polyphemus): Whither, fairest, art thou running
14. Aria (Polyphemus): Cease to beauty to be suing
15. Aria: Would you gain the tender creature
16. Recitative and Aria (Acis)
a. Recitative: His hideous love provokes my rage
b. Aria: Love sounds th'alarm
17. Aria (Damon): Consider, fond shepherd
18. Recitative (Galatea): Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth
19. Trio (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus): The flocks shall leave the mountains
20. Recitative (Acis): Help, Galatea
21. Chorus (Shepherds, Nymphs): Mourn, all ye muses
22. Solo with Chorus (Galatea, Shepherds, Nymphs): Must I my Acis still bemoan
23. Recitative and Aria (Galatea)
a. Recitative: Tis done, thus I exert my pow'r divine
b. Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight
24. Chorus (Shepherds, Nymphs): Galatea, dry thy tears
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1718, revised 1732, 1739
First Publication. 1743 ca. or before
Librettist John Gay (1685–1732)
with possible additions by John Hughes (1677–1720) and/or Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
after Ovid's Metamorphoses, xiii.
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
InstrDetail [more...]
Cast
Galatea (soprano)
Acis (tenor)
Damon (tenor or soprano)
Polyphemus (bass)

Mixed Chorus

Shepherds and Nymphs
Orchestra
External Links Wikipedia article
Libretto (Naxos.com)
Acis and Galatea -  Scores at Sheet Music Plus
Extra Information (From the wikipedia article)
Variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), an entertainment and (in the New Grove Dictionary) as an oratorio. The work was originally devised as a one-act masque which premiered in 1718. Handel later adapted the piece into a three-act serenata for the Italian opera troupe in London in 1732, which incorporated a number of songs (still in Italian) from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72, his 1708 setting of the same story to different music. He later adapted the original English work into its two-act form in 1739.
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