Paradise Lost (1760 Smith / Stillingfleet), oratorio

Paradise Lost (1760) is an oratorio, set to music by John Christopher Smith.

~ Libretto by Benjamin Stillingfleet, after John Milton

Abstract

Based on Paradise Lost (1667 Milton), poetry. The work survives both in manuscript and printed sources and ws the most successful among the works of the composer.

Editions

Published in London [England], Paradise Lost: An Oratorio, London: Dodsley, 1760); 2nd rev ed. London: Dodsley, 1774.

Performance history

Premiered in London, England: Covent Garden, 29 February 1760. Performed again in 1761 and in a revised version, in 1774.

References

• Smither, 3 (1987) 245ff