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Messiah (HWV 56) [1] [n 1] is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. ... The first published score of Messiah was issued in 1767, ...
"The prophecy and realisation of God's plan to redeem mankind by the coming of the Messiah" Scene 1: "Isaiah's prophecy of salvation" (movements 2–4) Scene 2: "The prophecy of the coming of Messiah and the question, despite (1), of what this may portend for the World" (movements 5–7) Scene 3: "The prophecy of the Virgin Birth" (movements 8 ...
Messiah is not a typical Handel oratorio; there are no named characters, as are usually found in Handel’s setting of the Old Testament stories, possibly to avoid charges of blasphemy. It is a meditation rather than a drama of personalities, lyrical in method; the narration of the story is carried on by implication, and there is no dialogue.
Mozart first heard Handel's Messiah in London in 1764 or 1765, and then in Mannheim in 1777. The first performance, in English, in Germany was in 1772 in Hamburg. [1] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was the first to perform the oratorio in German: he presented it in 1775 in Hamburg, with a libretto translated by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Christoph Daniel Ebeling, followed by repeat ...
Messiah: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Georg Friedrich Händel / Messiah (1742) / A Sacred Oratorio / Words by Charles Jennens opera.stanford.edu; George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) / Messiah Simon Heighes, for The Sixteen recording, 1997; Handel Messiah Lindsay Kemp, program notes for Colin Davis recording, 2006
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Israel in Egypt: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Free scores of Israel in Egypt in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki) Full-text libretto hosted by Stanford; Three small excerpts in mp3 & ogg by Swiss choir and orchestra on period instruments Archived 11 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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