Compositions with Alexander Pope as librettist
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Creators | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Period/style | Type | Listen | Code |
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| Verklärung (Transfiguration) | Franz Schubert, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
A minor | D.59 | 1813 | voice and piano | Romantic | Lieder |  |
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| Esther | George Frideric Handel, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
HWV 50b | 1732 | soprano, alto, 2 tenors, bass, mixed chorus and orchestra | Baroque | Sacred oratorios | |
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| 'The Rape of the Lock', an Opera/Oratorio No. 6. (SSA from 'The Rape of the Lock') | Deborah Mason, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
'Rape of the Lock' No. 6. | 2000 | female chorus and piano | Modern | Secular choruses | |
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| The Dying Christian to His Soul (Pope's Ode) | Edward Harwood, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
F major (opening in F minor) | 3 voices 4 voices mixed chorus |
Classical | Odes | |
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| Ode on St. Cecilia's Day | Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
1889 | soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Odes | |
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| While fools their time in stormy strife employ (Glee for four voices) | John Stafford Smith, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
alto, 2 tenors and bass | Classical | Glees | |
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| The Dying Christian to his Soul, Op. 14 (The Dying Christian to his Soul. An Ode by Pope. Set to Music ... by Baron Dalberg. Performed and Sung by Mr Braham at Mr Salomon's Concert, Hanover Square.) | Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
Op.14 | voice and orchestra | Romantic | Odes | |
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| The Dying Christian to his Soul (The Dying Christian to his Soul. A celebrated Ode, written by Pope. Set to Music for Three Voices, with an accompaniment for the organ, harpsichord or piano forte) | B. J. Richardson, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
2 tenors, bass and harpsichord 2 tenors, bass and organ 2 tenors, bass and piano 2 tenors, bass and continuo 2 sopranos, bass and organ 2 sopranos, bass and harpsichord 2 sopranos, bass and piano 2 sopranos, bass and continuo |
Classical | Odes | |
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| Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame (Vital Spark of Heav'nly Flame) | Michael Kelly, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
F major | voice and piano | Classical | Sacred songs | |
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| Pope's Messiah (A Sacred Eclogue) | Thomas Billington, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
Op.13 | voice, mixed chorus and keyboard voice, mixed chorus and orchestra |
Classical | Eclogues, Secular cantatas | |
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| Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (Mr. Pope's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day compos'd by Willm. Walond Bac:Mus: of Christ Church College Oxford) | William Walond, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | Baroque | Odes | |
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| 8 Canzonets (Eight Canzonets; with an Accompaniment for the Harp, [or] Piano Forte, German Flute, and Violoncello ... composed by Mrs. Ellis) | Catharine Ellis, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
voice, flute, harp and cello voice, flute, cello and piano |
Classical | Canzonets | |
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| Soon As the Letters Trembling (A canzonett) | George Frederick Pinto, composer Alexander Pope, librettist |
D minor | voice and piano | Classical | Canzonets | |
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