The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s most famous oratorio is Messiah composed in 1741. When it premiered in Dublin the following year, Handel’s name drew ...

“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly Host praising God” and singing Handel’s Messiah ... he would doll up the music with ornaments and, if another soprano ...

Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The first part of the oratorio foretells the Savior’s coming while the last part ...

It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near ...

Charles King calls Handel’s Messiah “the greatest piece of participatory art ever created”. Certainly, it occupies a unique place in the western classical music canon. Dating from 1741 ...