Satcher tio Mili. | Avipsin Bid wad Mark doe Beellfeaf.SERSE Opera in tre Atti. PERSONAGGI. SERSE, Re di Persia ARSAMENE, il suo fratello, amante di Romilda AMASTRE, principessa, amante di Serse ROMILDA, figlia di Ariodate ATALANTA, figlia di Ariodate ARIODATE, prencipe, capitano d’armi ELVIRO, servo di Arsamene Soprano. (itertosopranoy Baprane., Alto. Sopranc. Soprans. Basso. Vorwort. Die Oper Sense (Xerxes) wurde in der Zeit vom 26. Dec. 1787 his zam 14, Febroar 1738 com. ponirt und am s8. April 1738 zuerst_ in London aufgefthet. Eine um 40 bis So Jahre iltere ital. Oper scheint dem ‘Texte und zusi Theil avch wobl der Mosik nach benutzt za sein, Die drei kleinen Chore S. 27, 72 8. 1o werden bald daraof (S. 32, 73 u. 11) wiederbolt, und an diesen Stelle Abdrack gekommen, wie sie im Handexemplar steht, was desshalb geschah, um von Iindel's Directions: Yorlagen cin miglichst genanes Bild zu geben. Die Angaben weehselader Cembali bei der Arie S. 87 finden sich nor im Antograph, simmtlich darchstrichen, gelten also habe ich si als charakteristiseh fiir Hindel’s Praxis in Klammern mitgetheilt- Preface. Sense was composed in the period from Dec. 26. 1737 to Feb. 14. 1738, and first performed in London on the 184 April 1738. Aw Malian opera, about forty or fifty years older, eppears from the swords and to some extent eren from the music, to have been used. The three litle choruses on pp. 27, 72 and 110 ‘are soon afterwards (pp. 32, 73 and us) repeated; and at these latter places the music is printed in the abridged form in ihich it is found in the con. ducting score, for the purpose of giving an accurate picture of Handel precepts for the director. The notations of alternating Cembeli in the air on p.87 are only found in the autograph, and are there all crossed oxt, 50 thet they are not to be taken as reli Stil I hace inserted them in brackets as + being characteristic of Handel's practice. Chr. LEIPZIG, April 15. 1884.