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Based on Esther (Racine), play. The work was born and first performed as a masque around 1718. In 1732, Haendel revised and expanded it as an oratorio. | Based on [[Esther (1668 Racine), play]]. The work was born and first performed as a masque around 1718. In 1732, Haendel revised and expanded it as an oratorio. | ||
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Revision as of 08:39, 4 January 2010
Esther (1732) is an oratorio by Georg Frideric Haendel (mus.), and John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope (libr.).
Abstract
Based on Esther (1668 Racine), play. The work was born and first performed as a masque around 1718. In 1732, Haendel revised and expanded it as an oratorio.
Editions, performances, translations
Premeried in London [England]: Haymarket, 2 May 1733.