Haydn The Creation

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Haydn’s *The Creation* is a late 18th-century oratorio that vividly depicts the biblical story of the world’s creation through large-scale choral and orchestral writing.

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Haydn The Creation canonical 2
Haydn's Creation 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oratorio
basedOn Book of Genesis
Paradise Lost
Psalms
catalogueNumber Hob. XXI:2
character Adam
Eve
Gabriel
Raphael
Metatron
surface form: Uriel
commissionedBy Gottfried van Swieten
composer Joseph Haydn
compositionEndYear 1798
compositionStartYear 1796
countryOfOrigin Austria
firstPublicPerformanceDate 1799-03-19
firstPublicPerformanceLocation Vienna
genre oratorio
sacred music
hasBiblicalSource King James Version
surface form: King James Bible (English text influence)

Luther Bible
surface form: Luther Bible (German text influence)
inspiredBy Handel Messiah
surface form: Handel oratorios
keyFeature large-scale choral writing
orchestral depiction of natural phenomena
vivid tone painting
language English
German
librettist Gottfried van Swieten
notableChorus The Heavens are Telling
notableMovement The Representation of Chaos
originalTitle The Creation
surface form: Die Schöpfung
part Part I
Part II
Part III
period Classical era
premiereDate 1798-04-29
premiereLocation Palais Schwarzenberg, Vienna
scoring soloists, chorus, and orchestra
soloVoiceType bass
soprano
tenor
structure three parts
subjectMatter Garden of Eden
biblical creation of the world
creation of animals
creation of humans
creation of light
timePeriod late 18th century

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Haydn The Seasons follows Haydn The Creation
The Creation alsoKnownAs Haydn The Creation
this entity surface form: Haydn's Creation