Handel - Partenope
Score of Händel's Partenope
Chrysander | Edition 1879 | 136 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 26 MB
Chrysander | Edition 1879 | 136 pages | Single jpgs (1000x1400) in a zip-file | 26 MB
Partenope is an opera by George Frideric Handel composed in 1730. It was Handel's first comic opera which broke away from the Opera Seria tradition. The Royal Academy of Music rejected the work because of its frivolous nature, with relatively few extended arias and more recitative.