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Messiah (HWV 56) [1] [n 1] is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter [ n 2 ] by Charles Jennens .
"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.
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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.
The set of volumes in the Halle Handel Edition. The Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (" Halle Handel Edition ") is a multi-volume collection of the works of George Frideric Handel . It was first published in the 1950s: initially as an adjunct to the HG edition, but by 1958 as a collected edition in its own right.
(Magister Christian Roth was Handel's cousin.) 24 February 1719 French Johann Mattheson Handel writes that he is in accordance with Mattheson's views on Solmisation (a system of attributing a distinct syllable to each note in a musical scale), and with the lack of usefulness of the Greek musical modes in "modern music" (of Handel's time). On an ...
The classic recording of George Frideric Handel's masterpiece was recorded during the Choir's 1958 concert tour and has been remastered for CD. This recording was selected by The National Recording Registry for the recorded sound section of the Library of Congress in 2004 as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically important."