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Händel, Georg Friedrich: Anthem for the Funeral of Queen Caroline

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Edited by Landgraf, Annette
Setting: Viola part
Series: Bärenreiter Urtext
Period: Baroque
Length: 11 pages
Weight: 0.044 kg
Publisher: Bärenreiter
Item number: BA4267-79
Other reference: BA04267-79
ISMN: 9790006530397

When Queen Caroline, the wife of King George II of England, died on 20 November 1737, Handel was commissioned to write an anthem for her funeral service. She was buried in King Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey,on the evening of 17 December 1737, with Handel’s work performed after the funeral service.

To emphasize the solemnity of the occasion he used a roughly 100-piece Orchestra and 80 Choristers. The piece is a so-called ''fullanthem'' consisting of an instrumental Intr