On mighty pens uplifted soars the eagle aloft, and cleaves the sky in swiftest flight to the blazing sun. In all the lands resounds the word, never unperceived, ever understood.Īnd God said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. The firmament displays the wonder of his works.Īs day after day his power declares And night after night his honour affirms. The heavens are telling the glory of God. The boundless span of heaven’s vault is now adorn’d with numberless golden stars, and the sons of God announced the fourth day thus, in song divine, with joy proclaiming his might: With gentle steps and softer silv’ry beams steals the moon through still and silent night. In brightest splendour rises now the sun, and darts his rays an eager, joyful bridegroom, a giant glad and proud to run his measured course. With copious fruit the spreading boughs are hung in leafy arches twine the shady groves o’er lofty hills majestic forests rise.Īnd the heavenly host the third day proclaimed, praising God and saying:Īwake the harp, the lyre awake! With shouts of joy your voices raise! In triumph proclaim the might of the Lord! For all the heav’ns and the earth has he clothed in glorious attire.Īnd God said: Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, and to give light upon the earth and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and for years. The fragrant herbs give forth their scent, here shoots the healing plant. With verdure clad the fields appear delightful to the ravish’d sense by flowers sweet and gay adorned is the charming sight. Softly purling, glideth on through silent vales the limpid brook.Īnd God said: Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so. Through verdant plains, outstretching wide the rivers flow in serpent error. Mountains and rocks now emerge into the clouds their tops ascend. Rolling in foaming billows uplifted roars the boisterous sea. And God called the dry land: earth, and the gath’ring of waters called he seas and God saw that it was good. And to the ethereal vaults resounds the praise of God, and of the second day.Īnd to the ethereal vaults resounds the praise of God, and of the second day.Īnd God said: Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear and it was so. The glorious heav’nly hierarchy, the marvellous work beholds amaz’d. By heaven’s fire the sky is enflamed and awful roll the thunders on high.Īt his command, rise from the floods, reviving showers of rain, the dreary wasteful hail, the light and flaky snow. Outrageous, dreadful storms now arise as chaff by the winds impell’d are the clouds. A new-created world springs up at God’s command.Īnd God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. Affrighted fly hell’s spirits, black in throngs down they sink in the deepest abyss to endless night.ĭespairing, cursing rage attends their rapid fall. Now vanish before the holy beams the gloomy, dismal shades of darkness the first of days appears! Disorder yields and order fair prevails. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth and the earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.Īnd the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and God said: Let there be Light, and there was Light.Īnd God saw the Light, that it was good: and God divided the Light from the darkness. Haydn frequently appeared before the public, often leading performances of The Creation and The Seasons for charity benefits, including Tonkünstler-Societät programs with massed musical forces. The oratorio was published with the text in German and English in 1800 and was enthusiastically received. The first public performance was held in Vienna at the old Burgtheater on 19 March 1799. In part III, the bass and soprano represent Adam and Eve. In parts I and II, depicting the creation, the soloists represent the archangels Raphael (bass), Uriel (tenor) and Gabriel (soprano). The work is structured in three parts and scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and a symphonic orchestra. Originally written with bilingual text, the oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis, with inspiration drawn from the book of Genesis, the book of Psalms, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. XXI:2) in collaboration with his librettist and mentor Gottfried van Swieten, and with funding from van Swieten’s Gesellschaft der Associierten. The Creation (German: Die Schöpfung) is an oratorio written between 17 by Franz Joseph Haydn (Hob.
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