Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne is a secular cantata composed by George Friederick Handel (1685-1759) to a libretto by Ambrose Philips (1674-1749), and first performed in 1713, shortly after Handel took up residence in Britain. The cantata celebrates Queen Anne'sbirthday. Each stanza of the cantata concludes: HANDEL was the code-name for the UKs National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. ... Events February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... A libretto is the complete body of words used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. ... Ambrose Philips (c. ... Events February 19 - England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. ... Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ... // Events April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht June 23 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada first Orrery built by George Graham Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713... Anne Queen of Great Britain and Ireland Anne (6 February 1665–1 August 1714), became Queen of England and Scotland on 8 March 1702. ... A birthday is the date on which a person was born. ...
The day that gave great Anne birth Who fixed a lasting peace on Earth.
The text celebrates the accomplishment of the Treaty of Utrecht, negotiated by the Tory ministry of Anne in 1712 to end the War of the Spanish Succession. The Treaty of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed in Utrecht in 1713 that helped end the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Annes War) By its provisions, Louis XIVs grandson Philip V of Spain was recognized as King of Spain, but Spains European empire... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... // Events Treaty of Aargau signed between Catholic and Protestants. ... Charles II was the last Habsburg King of Spain. ...
Early in the 19th century the form was resumed, and we have the odes composed between 1817 and 1824 by Victor Hugo, the philosophical and religious odes of Lamartine, and the brilliant Odes funambulesques of Theodore de Banville (1857).
The golden age of German ode, both of the Pindaric and the Horatian varieties, is associated with the late 18th century and such writers as Klopstock and Schiller, whose An die Freude (Ode to Joy) inspired the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Odes to dignataries were often set also, such as the Ode for the Birthday of QueenAnne by Handel.
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