The Creation (Haydn) of tone painting, perhaps an inspiration to Haydn's own pervasive use of this device in "The Creation". The text of "The Creation" has a long history. The three sources are Genesis, the Biblical book of Psalms, and John Milton's "Paradise Lost". In 1795, when Haydn was leaving England, the impresario Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815) who had arranged his concerts there handed him a new poem entitled "The Creation of the World". This original had been offered to Handel, but the old master had not worked on it, as its wordiness meant that it would have been 4 hours in length
The Creation (Haydn) The first deals with the creation of light, of heaven and earth, of the sun and moon, of the land and water, and of plants. The second treats the creation of the animals, and of man and woman. The final part describes Adam and Eve during their happy time in the Garden of Eden, portraying an idealized love in harmony with the "new world". The oratorio is described below, for each part by both a table of the movements and description of individual movements. As in other oratorios, the larger musical numbers (arias and choruses) are often prefaced with a