Reassuring 18th century protestants

A recently opened music hall in Dublin was the venue for the first performance of Handel’s Messiah, which took place on 13 April 1742.

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A recently opened music hall in Dublin was the venue for the first performance of Handel’s Messiah, which took place on 13 April 1742. We know that Handel, at the age of 56, had composed the score within an intense spell of creative activity during August and September the previous year. But Handel did not compile the text that he set to music. The assembling of verses from the Bible that formed the libretto had been undertaken by a country squire called Charles Jennens, who was fifteen years younger than Handel.