ISBN 0769280374. German.
This work was called Occasional Oratorio because its creation and performance wer occasioned by peculiar passing circumstances. The only date in the autograph is found on the first page: "Overture the Occasional Oratorio Ann 1746." The first performance took placeo nt he 14th of February; the composition must consequently have been completed at the beginning of that year.
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