Agamemnon (Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings)

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General Information

Work Title Agamemnon
Alternative. Title
Composer Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ICP 2
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1900
First Performance. 1900-11-16 (New Theatre, Cambridge)
First Publication. 1900
Librettist Aeschylus, translated by Henry John Edwards (1869-1923)
Language Greek, English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation Chorus (TB), orchestra.

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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".