Composer	George Frideric Handel
Type	Recitativo
From	Atto secondo, Scena VI
Key	C sharp major → G major
Meter	C

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About the text

• Author: Nicola Francesco Haym
• Adapted by Nicola Francesco Haym from L’amor tirannico by Domenico Lalli. The story is derived from Tacitus’ Annals, book xii. Lalli’s text was based on the earlier French play L’amour tyrannique by Georges de Scudéry.

Instrumentation

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Categories

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• Recits in C meter ›

Notes

Resources

• Full score: Hallische Händel-Ausgabe II/9.1, p. 95
• Scores at IMSLP ›

Cataloguer

Emma Clarkson

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