Paul is the
CHAPTER IV
"SAMSON ET DALILA"
current.html">current list to-day, Handel's oratorio and Saint-Saens's opera; but
hold of the fancy of composers and it has held it ever since. The
and are spoken of as oratorios now, though they were doubtless
were "II Sansone" by Giovanni Paola Colonna (Bologna, 1677),
about 1700), "Simson" by Christoph Graupner (Hamburg, 1709),
Lefroid Mereaux (Paris, 1774), "Simson" by Johann Heinrich Rolle
Sansone" by Francesco Basili (Naples, 1824). Two French operas are
Voltaire wrote a dramatic text on the subject at the request of La
artist, exercised a tremendous influence in his day. Rameau was in
authors looked forward to a production on the stage of the Grand
"Jephte" and a New Testament "Enfant prodigue" were current; but
eve of the day on which it was to have been performed. The composer
his Hebrew music into the service of his Persian "Zoroastre". The
sea-change like unto Rameau's, Rossini's Moses, and Verdi's
well as a singer (he wrote no less than eight operas and also an
and succeeded in enlisting the help of Dumas the elder in writing
Grand Opera the Minister of Fine Arts told him that it was
cost more than 100,000 francs, Duprez then followed the example set
tell a story of the crusades which he called "Zephora".
translations of the work, and it had concert performances in 1857.html">1857.
German "Simson" between 1851 and 1857. The conductor at.
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