Performances
Sheet Music
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General Information
Work Title
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Agamemnon
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Alternative. Title
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Composer
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Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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ICP 2
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Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.
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1900
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First Performance.
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1900-11-16 (New Theatre, Cambridge)
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First Publication.
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1900
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Librettist
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Aeschylus, translated by Henry John Edwards (1869-1923)
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Language
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Greek, English
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Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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Piece Style
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Romantic
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Instrumentation
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Chorus (TB), orchestra.
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Navigation etc.
Commissioned by Cambridge (Dibble, 1992, p.374): "The main work that occupied Parry during 1900 and which overlapped both the composition of the Te Deum and The Soldier's Tent was the music commissioned by Cambridge University for Aeschylus' Agamemnon".