Judas Maccabaeus (HWV63): This is an Oratorio and it was composed by Handel George Frederic. Popularly know as G.F Handel in 1746. The oratorio music was organized for an even to the victorious Duke of Cumberland. And Prince Augustus William for his return from Battle of Culloden in the year 16 of April 1746. You can download Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 in PDF below.
The Judas Maccabaeus was published in the year 1866. And translated into German as Volume 22 of Handel Gesellschaft. In Handel’s time, Judas Maccabaeus was the most popular oratorio.
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About Judas Maccabaeus [HWV 63]
Judas Maccabaeus [HWV 63] is an oratorio in 3 acts. Written in the year 1746 by well famous composer George Frideric Handel (G.F Handel). based upon a libretto composed by Thomas Morell.
The oratorio developed as a praise to the triumphant Royal Prince William Augustus. Duke of Cumberland upon his return from the Fight of Culloden in the year 1746 16th of April. Various other catalogues of G.F Handel songs have described the work as HG xxvii; as well as HHA 1/24. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote twelve variations on See, the Conquering Hero Comes! For piano and also cello in the year 1796 [WoO 45].In the year 1884, the Swiss author Edmond Louis Budry composed new French words to the same chorus.
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Developing the Easter hymn ‘À toi la gloire, O Ressuscité!’. Which was later converted right into English as ‘Thine Be the Glory.’ See, the Conquering Hero Comes! Likewise acquired knowledge as the song inevitably played by brass groups.
At the opening of new railway lines and terminals in Britain throughout the 19th century. And also it was taken on as a motion in Sir Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea music, played at the BBC Proms.
Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63) Movements
- Overture in G minor
- Mourn, ye afflicted children
- Well may your sorrows
- From this dread scene these, adverse pow’rs
- For Sion lamentation make
- Not vain is all this storm of grief
- Pious orgies, pious airs, decent sorrow
- Oh Father, whose almighty pow’r
- I feel the Deity within
- Arm, ye brave!
- ‘Tis well, my friends
- Call forth thy pow’rs, my soul
- To Heav’ns Almighty King we kneel
- Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure
- Come, ever-smiling liberty
- Oh Judas, may these noble views
- ‘Tis liberty, dear liberty alone,
- Come, ever-smiling liberty
- Lead on! Judah disdains the galling load of hostile chains
- So will’d my father now at rest
- Disdainful of danger, we’ll rush on the foe, Semichorus
- Ambition! If e’er honour was thine aim
- No unhallow’d desire our breasts shall inspire
- Oh Judas, may thy just pursuits
- May balmy peace and wreath’d renown
- Far brighter than the morning
- Haste we, my brethren
- Hear us, oh Lord
- Fall’n is the foe
- Victorious hero! Fame shall tell
- So rapid thy course is
- May well we hope our freedom receive
- Flowing joys do now surround me
- Sion now her head shall raise
- Oh let eternal honours crown his name,
- From mighty Kings we took the spoil
- Hail, Judea, happy land
- Thanks to my brethren
- How vain is man, who boasts in fight
- Great in wisdom, great in glory
- Oh Judas, of my brethen!
- Oh! wretched Israel!
- Be comforted
- The Lord worketh wonders
- My arms! against his Gorgias
- Sound an alarm! Your silver trumpets sound
- Enough! To heav’n leave the rest
- With pious hearts, and brave as pious
- Ye worshippers of God
- Wise men, flatt’ring may decieve us
- Oh! Never bow we down
- Father of Heav’n!,
- See yon flames, that from the altar broke
- Oh grant it, Heav’n that our long woes
- So shall the lute and harp awake
- From Capharsalama, on eagle wings I fly
- Pow’rful guardians of all nature
- All his mercies I review
- Happy, oh, thrice happy we
- Yet more, Nicanor lies with thousands slain
- But low! The conqueror comes
- See the conqu’ring hero comes!
- March in G major
- March in F major
- Sing unto God, and high affections raise
- Sweet flow the strains, that strike my feasted ear
- With honour let desert be crown’d
- Peace to my countrymen
- Oh! had I Jubal’s lyre
- To our great God be all the honour giv’n
- Again the earth let gratitude descend
- Oh lovely peace, with plenty crown’d
- Rejoice, oh Judah! And, in songs divine
- Hallelujah Chorus and Amen
- Supplemental March in E flat major (fragment)
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