Dixit Dominus is a psalm setting by George Frideric Handel (catalogued as HWV 232). It uses the Latin text of Psalm 110 (Vulgate 109), which begins with the words Dixit Dominus ('The Lord Said').
The work was completed in April 1707 while Handel was living in Italy. It is Handel's earliest surviving autograph. The work was written in the baroque style and is scored for five vocal soloists (SSATB), five-part chorus, strings and continuo. It is most likely that the work was first performed on 16 July 1707 in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto, under the patronage of the Colonna family.
The score was published in 1867. A typical performance lasts a little over 30 minutes.
Movements[edit]
The work has the following movements:
See also[edit]External links[edit]Dixit Dominus Meaning
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George HandelPart 1 - Dixit Dominus
George HandelPart 4 - Juravit Dominus
George HandelParts 5,6 and 7 - Tu es sacerdos in aeternum ..
George HandelPart 8 - Conquassabit
George HandelPart 9 - De torrente in via bibet
George HandelPart 10 - Gloria Patri et Filio
Running time: 32:04
CHORISTER BIOGRAPHIES
Dixit Dominus Vivaldi
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Apollo's Fire under founder-director Jeannette Sorrell showcases its chorus in a selection of works by Handel, including Dixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, and Zadok the Priest.
Apollo's Fire with founder-director Jeannette Sorrell has won widespread critical acclaim with their half-dozen releases on AVIE. Most recently they released two adventurous albums that explored the byways of historically informed performance practice: early Americana on Come to the River (AV2205) and ancient Celtic Christmas music on Sacrum Mysterium (AV2269). Returning to their baroque roots, they offer a selection of works by Handel that showcases the Apollo's Fire Chorus. The centrepiece of the album is the grand Dixit Dominus written during the composer's early days in Rome. In a gesture to Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee year, Sorrell has chosen two works written for the monarch's forbearers - the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne which celebrated that sovereign's birthday in 1713, and Zadok the Priest composed for the coronation of King George II in 1727. As a bonus, Sorrell includes 'The Lord Shall Reign' from the epic Israel in Egypt.
The work was completed in April 1707 while Handel was living in Italy. It is Handel's earliest surviving autograph. The work was written in the baroque style and is scored for five vocal soloists (SSATB), five-part chorus, strings and continuo. It is most likely that the work was first performed on 16 July 1707 in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto, under the patronage of the Colonna family.
The score was published in 1867. A typical performance lasts a little over 30 minutes.
Movements[edit]
The work has the following movements:
See also[edit]External links[edit]
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dixit_Dominus_(Handel)&oldid=853031759'
When Georg Friedrich Händel moved from northern Germany, his lifelong home, to Italy in 1706, it was for the purpose of gathering firsthand knowledge of Italian opera. However, Handel's decision to travel to Rome near the end of that first Italian year (or perhaps at the start of the next) must have been a bit counterproductive, since Papal edict had put an end to all theatrical entertainment in the city all the way back in 1677. Handel had no trouble finding employment as a composer of pure sacred music, however, and spring and summer of 1707 saw the composition of a large proportion of his wonderful Latin-texted choral works, including the large-scale Dixit Dominus for vocal solists, chorus, and string orchestra, HWV 232.
The Dixit Dominus is a musical setting in eight sections of Psalm 109, to which is added a setting of the Lesser Doxology that normally follows the reading of a psalm. Handel essentially crafted the text into a half-hour oratorio, finding, as so many Italian composers had already done, that Church authorities didn't seem to mind if one indulged in full-blown operatic style as long as the subject remained appropriate for sacred services. The lyric arias and dramatic choruses in the work are very similar to those one finds in Handel's English oratorios of many decades later, even if they show a little less aristocratic flair. A sizable instrumental introduction, full of dramatic violin arpeggios, ushers in the opening chorus, 'Dixit Dominus Domine meo.' The alto (or, more properly, countertenor) aria 'Virgam virtutis' is by comparison far more relaxed, while the soprano's first aria offers the opportunity for both exquisite cantabile and refined melismatic exercise. The second chorus, 'Iuravit Dominus,' is a striking thing, bursting forth rapidly after a mysterious opening, but then moving almost immediately back -- via a very dramatic grand pause -- to the chromatic quagmire of the opening; again things rush forth, this time maintaining velocity until the end. The second half of the psalm verse begun in 'Iuravit Dominus' is given in the next chorus, 'Tu es sacerdos.' The chorus and five soloists (two sopranos, alto, tenor, and bass) join forces for the next two numbers, 'Dominus a dextris' and 'Iudicabit in nationibus.' 'De torrente in via bibet' is a very dissonant duet for two sopranos, while the final Doxology ('Gloria Patri..') moves forward along very melismatic lines. The final Amen is in the traditional fugal style Source: Allmusic (https://www.allmusic.com/composition/dixit-dominus-hymn-for-soloists-chorus-orchestra-in-g-minor-hwv-232-mc0002358079). Although originally composed for Chorus & Orchestra, I created this Interpretation of the 'Dixit Dominus' (The Lord Said - HWV 232) for Winds (Flute, Oboe, Bb Clarinet, French Horn & Bassoon) & Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello).
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