Score of Händel's Arminio
Chrysander | Edition 1882 | 115 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 21 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1882 | 115 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 21 MB
Arminio (HWV 36) is an opera composed by Georg Friedrich Händel.
Together with Giustino and Berenice, Arminio is one of three operas Händel wrote within a period of half a year in 1736. He began with the composition of Giustino on August 14 1736, followed by that of Arminio on 15. September. Having finished Arminio he resumed work on Giustino, which he finished on 20 October. In Mid-December, he went on to compose Berenice.
Arminio was performed for the first time at the Covent Garden Theatre on 12 January 1737, earlier than Giustino. It only saw five performances, the last one on 12th February.
The first modern performance took place on 23 February 1935 in Leipzig in a German language version by Max Seiffert and Hans Joachim Moser.