Messiah (Handel)
Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later. Handel wrote Messiah for modest vocal and instrumental forces, with optional settings for many of the individual numbers. A near-complete version was issued on 78 rpm discs in 1928; since...
