Belshazzar George Frideric Handel Hal Leonard Composers Series UPC: 73999710403

UPC: 73999710403

ISBN: 3795797225

The Golden Star

now used as the favorite 2nd tune of many current dance hits

Belshazzar George Frideric Handel Hal Leonard Composers Series UPC: 73999710403Belshazzar Publisher: Novello Category: Choral Series: Music Sales America Format: Paperback Handel's spectacular Oratorio was composed in 1744 from a libretto by Charles Jennens that describes the fall of Babylon. Although less successful in its day than the popular Italian opera, this work is full of invention and dramatic skill with the Jewish, Babylonian Persian and Medes masses having their own distinctive musics that were juxtaposed to create a