It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric ... Part III is about redemption. So, there's a tremendous shape to this three-part oratorio." In the 1720s and '30s, Handel's ...

George Frideric ... Other Handel oratorios had strong plots anchored by dramatic confrontations between leading characters. But Messiah offered the loosest of narratives: the first part prophesied ...

After the king’s death in 1727, Handel was commissioned to compose Zadok the Priest for the coronation of George II. The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s ...

Story goes, George Frideric Handel finished “Messiah,” a 260-page oratorio, in a mere 24 days, foregoing sleep and food for the most part ... has it King George II was so moved by the music ...

Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's 'Hallelujah' chorus or his Music for the Royal Fireworks. Life and Music Handel was born in ...

Every year about this time, Twin Cities classical music lovers — and, in particular, those who make a holiday tradition of experiencing George Frideric Handel’s 1742 oratorio “Messiah” — divide ...

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine ...

The composer George Frideric Handel wrote this letter ... It was written about a year after the London premiere of Handel's great oratorio 'Messiah', for which Jennens had supplied the libretto.

His black marble gravestone in the south transept reads GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL BORN YE 23 FEBRUARY 1684 DIED YE 14 ... instruments and an open score of his most well-known oratorio Messiah, composed ...