Name: Largo (from Xerxes) for violin and piano (arr. Colin Kirkpatrick) by George Frideric Handel Violin and Piano Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Colin Kirkpatrick Publications
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Largo (from Xerxes) for violin and piano (arr. Colin Kirkpatrick)
by George Frideric Handel Violin and Piano - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Largo (from Xerxes) for violin and piano (arr. Colin Kirkpatrick)

Artist George Frideric Handel

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer George Frideric Handel

Arranger Colin Kirkpatrick

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 6

Arrangement Violin and Piano

Publisher Colin Kirkpatrick Publications

Level 2

Product ID 1737694

Genre Baroque Video Game Early Music Historic

Instruments Piano Violin

Product Description

This piece is probably Handels best-known melody, although it began life as an operatic aria. The opera was called Xerxes, sometimes written Serses and pronounced something like ZERT-sees. It was commissioned by The Kings Theater in London and composed by Handel (who had become naturalized British and lived in London at the time) around 1737 and 1738. The opera is loosely based on the historical figure King Xerxes, who ruled from around 522-486 BC and was the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire, a vast region that covered most of the present-day Middle East.

The melody is often known simply as Handels Largo (despite being marked Larghetto in the musical score) and is the opening aria in the opera. The aria, known by its opening line Ombra mai fu is sung by Xerxes to a plane tree: Tender and beautiful fronds of my beloved plane tree, let fate smile upon you...

Although this lovely melody has survived over the years, the opera itself was a complete failure when it was first performed in London in 1738.

This arrangement is in G major and uses the violin's lower register. The top note is G5 and the piece generally requires the use of long and sustained bowing (indicted in the score), though the fingering has been omitted. The piano part has been kept as simple as possible. Being so well-known, this piece would make a popular encore number for an elementary violin recital.

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