Utrechter Jubilate
O be joyful HWV 279, 1713
The edition is based on Handel’s autograph (which unfortunately does not survive) and on a copy from Handel’s circle, which in some respects provides more information than the autograph and contains important details for this edition. In 1717 Handel revised the Jubilate in a smaller scoring for the ensemble at Cannons (HWV 246) and preceded it with a two-part Sinfonia which is also reproduced in the Appendix to this edition. The chorus is mainly scored in four parts, and is in eight parts in just one short movement. In two other movements the soprano part divides. The second alto solo part can also be sung by a high tenor.
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, originalhtml file, singing text, original (Sample)5527900380000 1. Solo and ChorusO be joyful in the Lord, be joyful all ye lands!
2. ChorusServe the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song.
3. DuetBe ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
4. ChorusO go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:
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be thankful unto him, and speak good of his name.For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures from generation to generation.
6. Chorus
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, Introductory text, germanhtml file, Introductory text, german (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument Gekürzter Booklet-Text der CD Carus 83.310
Henning Bey
Der europäische Friede von Utrecht 1713 und die Geburt eines britischen NationalkomponistenAls Georg Friedrich Händel im Spätsommer des Jahres 1741 am dritten Teil seines Messiah arbeitet, komponiert er auf die Worte „Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead“ eine Chornummer, die damals wie heute jedem Zuhörer einen Gänsehautmoment beschert. Langsam und leise singt der Chor in klagendem a-Moll a cappella die erste Hälfte des Textes. Und plötzlich folgt ein unwiderstehlicher Jubel in allen Stimmen, in dem mit der Auferstehung die Schrecken des Todes im rasanten Allegro und leuchtendem C-Dur hinweggefegt, weggesungen, weggefidelt und weggeblasen werden!
Diesen ungemein ausdrucksstarken Wechsel zwischen den Extremen hatte Händel zum ersten Mal in seinem Utrechter Te Deum verwendet – seinem allerersten Stück englischer Kirchenmusik, mit dem am 7. Juli 1713 im Rahmen eines großen Dankgottesdienstes in der Londoner St. Paul’s Cathedral der Friede von Utrecht gefeiert wurde. Auch hier geht es an einer
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, Introductory text, englishhtml file, Introductory text, english (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument Abridged text from the CD Carus 83.310
Henning Bey
The European Peace of Utrecht in 1713 and the Birth of a British National Composer
Translation: Gudrun and David KosvinerIn his mid-twenties, Georg Friedrich Händel had become an internationally active composer with several European princely courts vying for his services. The overwhelming triumph of his opera Agrippina in Venice in December 1709 drew the attention of, among others, the Elector of Hanover who offered Händel a position as court Kapellmeister, which he took up in 1710. Perhaps he did this already at that time with a view to later employment in London, since it was already generally known that in the not too distant future Queen Anne of Great Britain (as the last of the house of Stuart) would be succeeded on the British throne by the Guelf Elector Georg Ludwig of Hanover as King George I.
It was surely for this reason in particular that Händel was awarded leave of absence on several occasions by his new employer in order to go to London and build a musical reputation for himself there. For his musical inaugural visit Händel deliberately chose
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Digital text (without sheet music) incl. printing licence, html file, singing text, german translationhtml file, singing text, german translation (Sample)5527900380000 1. Solo und Chorus
O frohlocke in dem Herrn, frohlocke alle Welt!
2. ChorusDient dem Herrn mit Freuden, und kommet vor sein Antlitz mit Gesang.
3. DuettUnd erkennt, dass der Herr ist der Gott, und dass er uns gemacht hat, und nicht wir uns selbst, zu seinem Volke, zu den Schafen seiner Weide.
4. ChorusO gehet ein zu seinen Toren mit Danksagung, und zu seinem Haus mit Preis:
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seid dankbar gegen ihn und rühmt den Namen sein.Denn der Herr ist freundlich, und seine Gnad ist unvergänglich, seine Wahrheit besteht zu allen Zeiten.
6. ChorusEhre und Preis sei dem Vater, Ehre und Preis dem Sohn und auch dem heil’gen Geist.
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Composer
Georg Friedrich Händel
| 1685-1759George Frideric Handel put his exceptionally versatile compositional abilities to the test at an early age. After moving to London in 1712, where he was appointed Composer of Musick for His Majesty’s Chapel Royal in 1723, he wrote numerous masterpieces for the royal court as well as his major opere serie. For many years he enjoyed triumphant successes with his operas, which were sung by outstanding performers, with serenades, and later also with oratorios such as Saul and Israel in Egypt. Over the years Handel’s reputation grew far beyond the city where he worked; some of his choral works, particularly Messiah, have enjoyed a performance tradition which remains unbroken to this day, and are sung by choirs throughout the world. Personal details
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