When Eros meets Thanatos: the bedchamber scenes in Congreve/Eccles’s and Handel/Hamilton’s Semele(s)

When Handel’s opera-oratorio Semele (1744) premiered, Charles Jennens, future author of the Messiah libretto, described it bluntly as an “obscene work”. Admittedly, the sexual images of a text initially written by William Congreve for the composer John Eccles were apt to deter oratorio audiences of...

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Egile nagusia:	Degott, Pierre
Formatua:	Artigo
Hizkuntza:	Inglês
Argitaratua:	IRCL (UMR 5186) CNRS/Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 2019
Gaiak:	scènes de lit Éros Thanatos William Congreve John Eccles George Friedrich Haendel Newburgh Hamilton Semele bedchamber scenes Eros George Frederick Handel
Sarrera elektronikoa:	https://doi.org/10.4000/asf.524 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/a4ab https://journals.openedition.org/asf/524
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