aspects of the Christian Messiah: Messiah is not typical Handel oratorio; there are no named characters, as are usually found in Handel’s setting of the Old...

Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale...

Messiah (HWV 56), the English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, is structured in three parts. The wordbook (also called libretto...

Messiah (HWV 56), the English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, is structured in three parts. This listing covers Part II...

conception of an opera as a coherent structure was slow to capture Handel's imagination and he composed no operas for five years. In July 1717, Handel's Water...

Messiah (HWV 56), the English-language oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel in 1741, is structured in three parts. This listing covers Part III...

German-language version of Messiah, George Frideric Handel's 1741 oratorio. On the initiative of Gottfried van Swieten, Mozart adapted Handel's work for performances...

number his works. For example, Handel's Messiah can be referred to as: HG xlv, HHA i/17, or HWV 56. Some of Handel's music is also numbered based on...

portraits of Handel and Charles Jennens, Handel's friend and librettist of Messiah. On the second floor at the rear of the house, this served as Handel's dressing...

catalogue serves as the modern numbering system for Handel's compositions. For example, Handel's Messiah is numbered as HWV 56. The HWV numbers range from...

Sechehaye, George Frideric Handel, Anthony Furstenau and Michael Schlegel (13 Geo. 1. c. 2 Pr.), later given the short title of Handel's Naturalisation Act 1727...

George Frideric Handel in 1707. Other catalogues of Handel's music have referred to the work as HG liiB,92; and HHA v/5,97. The title of the cantata translates...

Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens, who also compiled the biblical texts for Handel's Messiah. It is composed...

is a virtuous one." Handel's colleague Charles Burney took note when two musicians asked for free tickets for Messiah and Handel responded "Oh your servant...

the last three common in North America) is an informal performance of Handel's Messiah in which the audience serves as the unrehearsed chorus, often supported...

supporters of true Italian opera, particularly as Handel would also not write for the rival Middlesex Opera Company. Winton Dean writes in his book Handel's Dramatic...

2001). "Handel's Messiah: Biblical and Theological Perspectives". Didaskalia. 12 (2): 1–23. Shaw, Watkins (1963). The story of Handel's "Messiah". London:...

magnificent new recording of Handel’s Saul, "Gramophone"; Robert Hugill, CD Review – Handel's Saul, "Planet Hugill – A world of classical music", 19 September...

to Mozart's 1789 version of Handel's Messiah. It has been suggested that this version of Judas Maccabaeus represents one of the projects instigated by...

secretary/treasurer of the society during the conception and construction phase of the project. The building is most notable for the premiere of Handel's Messiah which...

often performed separately in concert. Handel began the composition of Samson immediately after completing Messiah on 14 September 1741. It used a libretto...

The collection's abbreviation of "HHA" can be used to identify individual works by Handel, for example Handel's Messiah can be referred to as "HHA i/17"...

literature and to Western culture in general, from the libretto of Handel's Messiah to a host of such everyday phrases as "swords into ploughshares" and "voice...

Sir Thomas Beecham; certainly, Handel did not use that title, the surviving wordbook simply calling it "Sinfony". Handel's contemporary William Boyce said...

arrangements of four of them and through the various editions of the full Opus 6 produced during Handel's lifetime. Twenty-five years after Handel's death,...

July 2009 Handel's lost Hamburg operas List of compositions by George Frideric Handel Handel Reference Database Hicks, Anthony (1992), 'Handel, George Frideric'...

Sebastian Bach, performed on a viola by Elias Goldstein Messiah – Overture Composed by George Frideric Handel, performed by the MIT Concert Orchestra Concert...

the style of Handel's first compositions in England. However, despite the seemingly conventional semiquaver figurations for organ, Handel's maturity and...

The collection's abbreviation of "HG" can be used to identify individual works by Handel; for example Handel's Messiah can be referred to as "HG xlv"...

Chrysander, Leipzig 1863) German text of Brockes Passion as set by Handel Complete Discography of G.F. Handel's Brockes-Passion on Bach Cantatas Website...