Juditha triumphans (1716 Vivaldi / Cassetti), oratorio
Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie <Latin> (1716) is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi (mus.) and Iacopo Cassetti (libr.).
Abstract
Based on the Book of Judith, the oratorio was commissioned to celebrate the victory of Venice against the Turks during the siege of Corfu.
Editions, performances
Premiered in Venice [Italy]: Ospedale della Pietà, November 1716, at the presence of the General of the victorious Venetian army, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.
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Categories:
- 1716
- Fiction--1700s
- Fiction--Latin
- Music--1700s
- Oratorios
- Latin language--1700s
- Italian language--1700s
- Made in the 1700s
- Second Temple Studies--1700s
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Second Temple Studies--Latin
- OT Apocrypha Studies--1700s
- OT Apocrypha Studies--Fiction
- OT Apocrypha Studies--Latin
- Judith (subject)
- Judith--fiction (subject)
- Judith--music (subject)