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''Ero e Leandro'', also known after its first line as ''Qual ti reveggio, oh Dio''〔Donald Burrows (1997), ''The Cambridge Companion to Handel'', Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-45613-4, ISBN 978-0-521-45613-5, p. 334.〕 (HWV 150), is a 1707 Italian-language cantata by George Frideric Handel, composed during his stay in Rome to a libretto believed to be written by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.〔GFHandel.com, (G. F. Handel's Compositions HWV 101-200 ). Accessed 14-3-2009〕 It is a reworking of the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, with the soprano soloist taking the role of Hero.〔 In it, Hero finds her love, Leander, drowned, tears out her hair, thus symbolically rejecting the beauty which had led to Leander's fascination with her (and thus his death), then drowns herself.〔Ellen T. Harris (2001), ''Handel as Orpheus'' Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01598-3, ISBN 978-0-674-01598-2, p. 50〕 It is composed for a soprano solo (with no other singers), and a small orchestra consisting of two oboes, and two string sections: a concertino of solo violin and violoncello, and a concerto grosso made up of two violins, a viola, and continuo.〔Harris, Ellen T (March 2001), "Kantaten mit Instrumenten, III: HWV 150, 165, 166, 170, 171, 173 (review)", in ''Notes'' 57: 3. p. 737.〕 In ''Ero e Leandro'', Recitatives alternate with arias, as was normal at the period for not only cantatas, but oratorios and operas as well; however, unusually, ''Ero e Leandro'' ends with a recitative, instead of an aria.〔Dean, Winton (1997), ''Humour with Human Commitment: Handel's "Agrippina"''. Essay accompanying Philips recording 438 009-2 by Philips Classical Productions. p. 1 c.2〕〔Ellen T. Harris (2001), ''Handel as Orpheus'' Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01598-3, ISBN 978-0-674-01598-2, p. 54.〕 ''Ero e Leandro'' comes from a period very early in Handel's career, when Handel, having travelled to Italy in 1706, was replacing his former Germanic style of composition with the Italian style that he would use for the rest of his life.〔Boyden et al, p. 56〕〔Dean, Winton (1980). "George Frideric Handel" in the ''New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (British special edition), Vol. 8, Macmillan, London, ISBN 0-333-23111-2, p. 110.〕 Music from it would be reused by Handel in his later compositions: Themes taken from this opera appear in both Handel's Recorder Sonata Opus 1, No 2〔Donald Burrows (1997), ''The Cambridge Companion to Handel'', Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-45613-4, ISBN 978-0-521-45613-5, pp. 188–89.〕 and in his ''Utrecht Te Deum'' for the setting of "Vouchsafe, O Lord".〔Donald Burrows (2005), ''Handel and the English Chapel Royal'', Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-816228-6, ISBN 978-0-19-816228-5, p. 89, footnote 43.〕 In ''Agrippina'', Agrippina's aria "Non ho che cor amarti" was taken, almost entirely unadapted, from "Se la morte non vorrà".〔 * (subscription access).〕 It is the only of Handel's cantatas known, to reasonable certainty, to have been written under the patronage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni,〔 an important patron of the arts in Italy for whom Handel is known to have written many cantatas, but, outside of ''Ero e Leandro'', it's somewhat uncertain which these are. ''Ero e Leandro'' was first published in 1999 as part of Hallische Händel-Ausgabe's attempt to create a complete edition of all of Handel's works. It appears in ''Georg Friedrich Händel. Kantaten mit Instrumenten, III: HWV 150, 165, 166, 170, 171, 173''.〔Harris, Ellen T (March 2001), "Kantaten mit Instrumenten, III: HWV 150, 165, 166, 170, 171, 173 (review)", in ''Notes'' 57: 3. pp. 736–37.〕 ==Music== *Qual ti reveggio, oh Dio (Recitative) *Empio mare (Aria) *Amor, che ascoso (Recitative) *Se la morte non vorrà (Aria) *Questi dalla mia fronte (Recitative) *Si muora (Aria) *Ecco, gelide labbra (Recitative)〔(Arkivmusic track listing )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ero e Leandro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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