The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69 (Handel, George Frideric)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 parts
Composition Year 1750 (28 June to 5 July)
Genre Categories Secular oratorios; Oratorios; For 4 voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the alto voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; English language; For 3 trumpets, organ (arr); Scores featuring the trumpet (arr); Scores featuring the organ (arr); For 4 players (arr)

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Performances

Naxos

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Sinfonia (Act II, No.15)

For 3 Trumpets and Organ (Rondeau)

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Sheet Music

Full Scores

 Complete Score
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Editor Friedrich Chrysander (1826-1901)
Publisher. Info. Georg Friedrich Händels Werke. Band 18
Leipzig: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1863. Plate H.W. 18.
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 Complete Score
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Editor Walther Siegmund-Schultze (1916-1993)
Publisher. Info. Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, Serie I, Band 31
Kassel: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1963. Plate BA 4011.
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Reprinted Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d.(1987-2018). Catalog A7954.
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Parts

 Flute 1, 2
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⇒ 8 more: Oboe 1, 2 • Bassoon • Horn 1, 2 (C) • Trumpet 1, 2 (C) • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos/Basses

 Oboe 1, 2
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 Bassoon
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 Horn 1, 2 (C)
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 Trumpet 1, 2 (C)
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 Violins I
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 Violins II
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 Violas
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 Cellos/Basses
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Editor Walther Siegmund-Schultze (1916-1993)
Publisher. Info. Hallische Händel-Ausgabe, Serie I, Band 31
Kassel: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1963. Plate BA 4011.
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This “urtext” or “scholarly” (scientific) edition was published at least 25 years ago in Germany and thus is public domain in its country of origin. Such editions are also public domain in Canada because they fail to meet the minimum ‘threshold of originality’ to qualify for copyright as an ‘adaptation’. It may not be public domain elsewhere, however. More information about this can be found here.
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Reprinted Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d.(1987-2018). Catalog A7954.
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Vocal Scores

 Complete Score
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Language German / English
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Sinfonia (Act II, No.15)

For 3 Trumpets and Organ (Rondeau)

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Arranger Michel Rondeau
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General Information

Work Title The Choice of Hercules
Alternative. Title
Name Translations The Choice of Hercules (Haendel); La scelta di Ercole; Η Εκλογή του Ηρακλή (Χαίντελ)
Name Aliases Le choix d'Hercule
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 173830656; LCCN: n86859692; GND: 300064284; SELIBR: 225255
Composer Handel, George Frideric
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. HWV 69
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IGH 103
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 2 parts
  • Part 1
1. Overture
2. Accompagnato: See, Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain (Pleasure)
3. Aria: Come, blooming boy, with me repair (Pleasure)
4. Aria: There the brisk sparkling nectar repair (Pleasure)
5. Solo and Chorus
a. Solo: While for thy arms that Beauty glows (Pleasure)
b. Chorus: Seize, seize these blessings, blooming boy! (Chorus)
Recitative: Away, mistaken wretch, away! (Virtue)
6. Aria: This manly youth's exalted mind (Virtue)
Recitative: Rise youth! exalt thyself and me (Virtue)
7. Aria: Go, assert thy heav'nly race (Virtue)
Recitative: In peace, in war, pursue thy country's good (Virtue)
8. Solo and Chorus
a. Solo: So shalt thou gain immortal praise (Virtue)
b. Chorus: The golden trump of Fame
Recitative: Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage? (Pleasure)
9. Solo and Chorus
a. Solo: Turn thee, youth, to joy and love (Pleasure)
b. Chorus: Why, ah why this fond delay?
  • Part 2
Recitative: Short is my way (Pleasure, Hercules)
10. Aria: Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay (Hercules)
11. Aria: Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (an Attendant of Pleasure's)
Recitative: Oh! whither, Reason, dost thou fly? (Hercules)
12. Trio: Where shall I go? (Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules)
13. Accompagnato: Mount, mount the steep ascent! (Virtue)
14. Aria: Mount, mount the steep ascent (Virtue)
15. Chorus: Arise, arise!
Recitative: The sounds breathe fire celestial (Hercules)
16. Aria: Lead, Goddess, lead the way (Hercules)
17. Chorus: Virtue will place thee in that blest abode
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1750 (28 June to 5 July)
Librettist Robert Lowth (1710-1787), adapted, probably by Thomas Morell (1703-1784).
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Baroque
Piece Style Baroque
Instrumentation voices, chorus, orchestra
Cast
Hercules (alto)
Pleasure (soprano)
Virtue (alto)
An Attendant on Pleasure (tenor)
Mixed Chorus (SATB)
Orchestra
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