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John Gay (30 Jun 1685 - 04 Dec 1732)

Male Person - United Kingdom English poet and dramatist

Works (88)

Composed

  1. The Beggar’s Opera
  2. The Beggar's Opera
  3. The Beggar’s Opera: “Cease your funning”
  4. Lied der Ratgeber des Kanzlers
  5. The Beggar's Opera
  6. The Beggar's Opera

Lyrics

  1. Let’s Be Gay

Libretto

  1. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (1718)
  2. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I (1718)
  3. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II (1718)
  4. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 15. Aria "Love sounds th'alarm" (Acis) (1718)
  5. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 1. Sinfonia (1718)
  6. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 2. Choir "Oh the pleasure of the plains!" (1718)
  7. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 14. Aria "Would you gain the tender creature" (Damon) (1718)
  8. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 9a. Duet "Happy we" (Galatea, Acis) (1718)
  9. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 7. Aria "Love in her eyes sits playing" (Acis) (1718)
  10. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 18. Recitativo "Help, Galatea!" (Acis) (1718)
  11. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 19. Choir "Mourn, all ye muses!" (1718)
  12. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 20a. Solo with Choir "Must I my Acis still bemoan" (Galatea, choir) (1718)
  13. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 20c. Recitativo "'Tis done" (Galatea) (1718)
  14. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 21. Aria "Heart, the seat of soft delight" (Galatea) (1718)
  15. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 22. Choir "Galatea, dry thy tears" (1718)
  16. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 12a. Recitativo "Whither, fairest, art thou running" (Polyphemus) (1718)
  17. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 13. Aria "Cease to beauty to be suing" (Polyphemus) (1718)
  18. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 14a. Recitativo "His hideous love provokes my rage" (Acis) (1718)
  19. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 16. Aria "Consider, fond shepherd, how fleeting's the pleasure" (Damon) (1718)
  20. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 16a. Recitativo "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" (Galatea) (1718)
  21. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 17. Trio "The flocks shall leave the mountains" (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus) (1718)
  22. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 7a. Recitative "Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love" (Galatea) (1718)
  23. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 8. Aria "As when the dove laments her love" (Galatea) (1718)
  24. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 9b. Choir "Happy we" (1718)
  25. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 10. Choir "Wretched lovers!" (1718)
  26. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 11. Recitativo accompagnato "I rage, I melt, I burn!" (Polyphemus) (1718)
  27. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II, no. 12. Aria "O ruddier than the cherry" (Polyphemus) (1718)
  28. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 3. Recitative "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" (Galatea) (1718)
  29. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 4. Aria "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!" (Galatea) (1718)
  30. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 5. Aria "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" (Acis) (1718)
  31. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 5a. Recitative "Stay, shepherd, stay!" (Damon) (1718)
  32. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 6. Aria "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?" (Damon) (1718)
  33. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I, no. 6a. Recitative: "Lo! Here my love!" (Acis) (1718)
  34. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Look ye, Mrs Jenny" (Vixen, Coaxer, Slammekin, Trull, Jenny)
  35. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Noble Captain, you are welcome" (Lockit, Macheath)
  36. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Man may escape from rope and gun" (Macheath)
  37. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Dear Mrs Coaxer, you are welcome" (Macheath)
  38. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Youth's the season made for joys" (Macheath, Jenny, Coaxer, Vixen, Brazen)
  39. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Before the barn door crowing" (Jenny, Macheath, Trull, Tawdry, Slammekin, Vixen)
  40. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "The gamesters and lawyers are jugglers alike" (Jenny, Tawdry, Macheath)
  41. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "I seize you, sir, as my prisoner" (Peachum, Macheath)
  42. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "At the tree I shall suffer with pleasure" (Macheath, Peachum)
  43. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "But pr'ythee, Matt, what is become of thy brother Tom?" (Ben, Matt, Jemmy, Jack, Wat, Robin, Ned, Harry)
  44. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us" (Matt, company)
  45. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "Gentlemen, well met" (Macheath, Matt)
  46. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "Let us take the road" (Matt)
  47. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Dialogue. "What a fool is a fond wench!" (Macheath)
  48. The Beggar's Opera: Act II. Air. "If the heart of a man is deprest with cares" (Macheath, Drawer)
  49. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Now I'm a wretch" (Polly)
  50. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Pretty Polly, say" (Macheath, Polly)
  51. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "My heart was so free" (Macheath, Polly)
  52. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Were I laid on Greenland's coast" (Macheath, Polly)
  53. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O what pain it is to part!" (Polly, Macheath)
  54. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The miser thus a shilling sees" (Macheath, Polly)
  55. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Dear wife, be a little pacified" (Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
  56. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A fox may steal your hens, sir" (Peachum)
  57. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "'Twas only Nimming Ned" (Polly, Peachum, Mrs Peachum)
  58. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Oh, ponder well! be not severe" (Polly, Mrs Peachum)
  59. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "The turtle thus with plaintive crying" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
  60. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "The thing, husband, must and shall be done" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
  61. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "I know as well as any of the fine ladies" (Polly)
  62. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Virgins are like the fair flower in its lustre" (Polly, Peachum)
  63. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Our Poly is a sad slut!" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum, Polly)
  64. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Can love be control'd by advice?" (Polly, Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
  65. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "O Polly, you might have toy'd and kissed" (Mrs Peachum, Polly)
  66. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "I like a ship in storms was tossed" (Polly, Peachum)
  67. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "What of Bob Booty, husband?" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
  68. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air "If any wench Venus's girdle wear" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
  69. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "If love the virgin's heart invade" (Mrs Peachum, Peachum)
  70. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Never was a man more out the way in an argument" (Mrs Peachum)
  71. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "A maid is like the golden ore" (Mrs Peachum)
  72. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "Come hither, Filch" (Mrs Peachum, Filch)
  73. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Introduction "If poverty be a title to poetry" (Beggar, Player)
  74. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue / Overture
  75. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "Through all the employments of life" (Peachum)
  76. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue "Sir, Black Moll hath sent word" (Filch, Peachum)
  77. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Air. "'Tis woman that seduces all mankind" (Filch, Peachum)
  78. The Beggar's Opera: Act I. Dialogue. "But 'tis now high time to look about me" (Peachum)
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