Tochter Zion

Composer: HANDEL, George Frideric
  • I believe this CD has mislabeled this track. This is an arrangement of “See, the Conquering Hero Comes,” no. 56 from Act 3 of from Judas Maccabeus HWV 63 (see score, p. 151). “Tochter Zion” is the German title for “Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion” from Messiah. In Naxos’s catalog this track is listed as “Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter from Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63” but there is such movement in Judas Maccabeus. I’m sure they meant “ ‘Hail the Conquering Hero’ from Judas Maccabeus HWV 36
  • Handel’s oratorio Judas Maccabeus was composed in 1746, to a libretto adapted from the Book of I Maccabees and Josephus’ Antiquities.1

Sources

  1. Anthony Hicks, “Handel [Händel, Hendel], George Frideric,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 18, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040060.

Cut IDs

18850