Leroy Curtis wrote:

>Kevin Sutton <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
>>Welllll, Creation was written for a London audience as I recall.  It is
>>after all modeled on Handel, so I think that you would be fine with a
>>version in either language and be correct.  I would recommend the Shaw
>>recording (in English).
>
>No, The Creation was written for Vienna.  Van Swieten translated an English
>text of unknown authorship, which may have been intended for Handel, which
>Haydn then set.  The work was later re-translated back into English.

I'll get Die Schopfung then.  And Kevin I am sure appreciates your
frankness in setting him straight.  I am sure he is grateful for your
help in curbing his spouting.  (I am sorry, I could not resist.)

David Stewart
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