# Alexander’s Feast premieres on 19 February 1736 as Handel’s Dryden ode for Music

Date: 1736

## The fact

Britannica dates Alexander’s Feast to 19 February 1736. Libretto arrangers and Covent Garden forces share the night.

It is one event.

## Context

Opera wars continue nearby.

[George Frideric Handel](/people/george-frideric-handel)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Covent Garden concerts; English-language turn amid Italian opera fatigue.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Handel House independently date Alexander’s Feast 1736.

Official or archival record: Britannica — George Frideric Handel (https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A public Dryden ode setting is an edu path for poetic-musical literacy.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 19 February 1736 premiere. Not established: unique Dryden copyright coefficients.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by George Frideric Handel.

They are not a public rating.

George Frideric Handel did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep distinct from later organ-concerto pairings. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of George Frideric Handel.
George Frideric Handel did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Keep distinct from later organ-concerto pairings. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of George Frideric Handel.

## People

- George Frideric Handel: https://factrail.ai/people/george-frideric-handel

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://handelhendrix.org/discover/learn-about-handel
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gfh-alexander-feast-1736