Instrumentation
Woodwinds: 2 flutes, piccolo (only in the storm of act 2), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A and in B/B-flat), 2 bassoons; brass: 4 horns (in D, in C, in B-flat (alto)/in B (hoch), in G), 2 trumpets in D, 3 trombones (only accompanying the off-stage voice of Neptune in act 3); percussion: timpani in D and in A; strings; continuo in recitatives of harpsichord and violoncello (period performance practice often uses a fortepiano only).
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