When Jephtha an Oratorio was published by John Walsh in April 1752, music allocated to the character Hamor was headed as sung by ‘Mr. Brent’. William Barclay Squire began his Dictionary of national biography entry (1885) on the soprano Charlotte Brent by stating that she was the daughter of ‘a fencing-master and alto singer, who sang in Handel’s “Jephtha” in 1752’, and this has been generally accepted. Charlotte’s father, Charles, was a leading fencing-master, but he was in his late 50s at the time of the Jephtha premiere and his only known ‘musical’ appearance was as the player of the salt-box in a burlesque ode at his daughter’s benefit at Ranelagh in 1763. Handel began composing the oratorio expecting that the alto castrato Gaetano Guadagni would create the role of Hamor, but when the premiere took place in February 1752 Guadagni was unavailable. For the revival of the oratorio in 1758 Hamor was sung by the 17-year-old Isabella Young, who probably also took the role in 1756. No male singer called Brent is recorded in concerts or on the London stage, so it is extremely likely that the singer at the premiere of the oratorio was the young Charlotte Brent.

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谁在亨德尔的《耶弗他》中演唱了哈莫尔？

1752 年 4 月，约翰·沃尔什 (John Walsh) 出版了 Jephtha an Oratorio 时，分配给角色 Hamor 的音乐以“Mr. 布伦特”。威廉·巴克莱·斯奎尔（William Barclay Squire）在他的国家传记词典（1885 年）开始时提到女高音夏洛特·布伦特（Charlotte Brent），称她是“一位击剑大师和女低音歌手的女儿，她在 1752 年演唱了亨德尔的《杰弗塔》”，这一直是大致接受。夏洛特的父亲查尔斯是一位顶尖的击剑大师，但在 Jephtha 首映时，他已经 50 多岁了，他唯一为人所知的“音乐”形象是在女儿家的滑稽颂歌中扮演盐箱的演奏者1763 年在 Ranelagh 受益。Handel 开始创作清唱剧，期望中音castrato Gaetano Guadagni 将创造 Hamor 的角色，但是当 1752 年 2 月首映时，Guadagni 无法使用。对于 1758 年清唱剧的复兴，17 岁的伊莎贝拉·杨（Isabella Young）演唱了哈莫尔，他可能也在 1756 年担任了这个角色。没有一个叫布伦特的男歌手在音乐会或伦敦舞台上录制过，所以很有可能清唱剧首演的歌手是年轻的夏洛特布伦特。