Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
E major |
Meter |
3/8 |
Tempo |
Andante |
Structure |
da capo |
Length |
235 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano; alto |
After long storms and tempests overblown |
The sun at length his joyful face doth clear. |
Thus after fortune’s rage is shown, |
A blissful hour at last is known, |
Else would afflicted man despair. |
After long storms… |
Opera Stanford |
“After the poetry of John Milton and Edmund Spenser.
The work was written in the midst of the Jacobite rising of 1745–1746.” Wikipedia
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