Thomas Morell
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Thomas Morell was a librettist, classical scholar, and printer.
Morell is important for having written the longest and most detailed surviving account of collaboration with Handel.
's oratorios:
Morell is important for having written the longest and most detailed surviving account of collaboration with Handel.
Librettos
He is best known as the librettist of the following of George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
's oratorios:
- Judas Maccabaeus (1747).
- JoshuaJoshua (Handel)Joshua is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It was composed in a month, between 19 July 1747 and 19 August 1747 and is Handel's fourth oratorio based on a libretto by Thomas Morell. The oratorio premiered on the 9th March, 1748 at the Covent Garden Theatre, London...
(1747). - Alexander BalusAlexander BalusAlexander Balus is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. The libretto is by Thomas Morell after the biblical book of 1 Maccabees...
(1748). - TheodoraTheodora (Handel)Theodora is an oratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel, set to an English libretto by Thomas Morell. The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus....
(1750). - The Choice of HerculesThe Choice of Hercules (Handel)The Choice of Hercules is an oratorio in one act by George Frideric Handel. Handel produced the score between 28 June and 5 July 1750. The first performance was given on 1 March 1751 at the Covent Garden Theatre, London...
(1750). Uncertain if Morell was the librettist. - Jephtha (1752).
- The Triumph of Time and TruthThe Triumph of Time and TruthThe Triumph of Time and Truth is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel which saw three iterations across 50 years of Handel's career.HWV 46a is an Italian oratorio from 1707. In 1737 Handel revised and expanded the oratorio to create HWV 46b...
(1757). Morell was probably the librettist.