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Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, wrote in 1760 that this conclusion revealed the composer "rising still higher" than in "that vast effort of genius, the Hallelujah chorus". [130] Young writes that the "Amen" should, in the manner of Palestrina , "be delivered as though through the aisles and ambulatories of some great church".
"Hallelujah!" is a 1992 song from Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration, a Grammy award winning Reprise Records concept album. The song is a soulful re-interpretation of the "Hallelujah" chorus from Messiah , George Frideric Handel 's well-known oratorio from 1741.
Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63) is an oratorio in three acts composed in 1746 by George Frideric Handel based on a libretto written by Thomas Morell.The oratorio was devised as a compliment to the victorious Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland upon his return from the Battle of Culloden (16 April 1746). [1]
In Handel’s great chorus, the word is joyous, victorious, accompanied by trumpets and drums. In Sergei Rachmaninoff’s "All Night Vigil," however, hallelujah reflects a more quiet devotion ...
A contemporary critic, conditioned by John Brown who objected to operatic features in oratorios such as recitatives, long ritornellos, and ornamented vocal lines, commented on Handel's display of musical inventiveness and "contrapuntal skill" [14]: "The fugue too, on Amen, is entirely absurd, and without reason: at most, Amen is only a devout ...
Misattributed to Handel; by A. Lotti ("Missa Sapientiae"), but copied by Handel c. 1749. 245 Cantata Gloria in excelsis deo Chorus Misattributed to Handel; by A. Lotti ("Missa Sapientiae"), but copied by Handel c. 1749. 269 Amen...alleluja Soprano, Bass D minor 1735-46 Probably intended as a vocal study. 270 Amen Soprano, Bass F major 1735-46
Dec. 4—If the holidays are here, it must be time for the "Messiah." The New Mexico Philharmonic will play Handel's masterpiece in three performances: Friday, Dec. 8, and Saturday, Dec. 9, at the ...
Hallelujah written in Modern Hebrew. Hallelujah (/ ˌ h æ l ə ˈ l uː j ə / HAL-ə-LOO-yə; Biblical Hebrew: הַלְלוּ־יָהּ , romanized: hallū-Yāh, Modern Hebrew: הַלְּלוּ־יָהּ , romanized: halləlū-Yāh, lit. 'praise Yah') is an interjection from the Hebrew language, used as an expression of gratitude to God.