Gioas re di Giuda (Joas, king of Judah) is an Italian-language oratorio libretto by Pietro Metastasio written in 1735 for imperial court composer Georg Reutter the younger and later set by at least 25 composers.[1] The plot is based on the life of King Joash of Judah.
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- Johann Georg Reutter, 1735, Hofburgkapelle, Vienna
- Vaclav Matyas Guretzky, 1736, Brünn
- Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, 1744, Pistoia
- Niccolò Jommelli, 1745, Ospedale degl’Incurabili, Venice
- Gennaro Manna, 1747, Naples
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil, 1755, Burgtheater, Vienna
- Antonio Sacchini, 1767, Oratorio dei Filippini di Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome
- Luigi Boccherini, 1770, S. Maria di Corteorlandini, Lucca
- J. C. Bach, 22 March 1770, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London
- Antonio Cartellieri, 29 March 1795, Vienna
- Joseph Schuster, 1803, Dresden
- Luigi Mosca, 1806, Palermo
The 1823 setting of an anonymous libretto by Simone Mayr, Innalzamento al trono del giovane re Gioas, is only thematically based on Metastasio's original.
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- ^ Howard E. Smither, A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 3: the Oratorio in the Classical Era. 2012 -0807836613 "In Metastasio, Opere, 2:1322–25, Brunelli lists the following numbers of composers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who set Metastasio's oratorios: Betulia, 33; Isacco, 27; Giuseppe, 25; Gioas, 24; Abel, 22; La passione, 19; ..."
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