The Messiah
By George Frideric Handel
- Release Date: 2016-12-06
- Genre: Music
Description
THE MESSIAH, Handel’s most successful and best-known oratorio, was composed in the year 1741 in twenty-four days, from August the 22d to September the 14th. It was first performed at a concert given for charitable purposes at Dublin, Ireland, on April the 13th, 1742, Handel conducting the performance in person.
