This new guide to Handel's most celebrated work traces the course
of Messiah from Handel's initial musical response to the libretto,
through the oratorio's turbulent first years to its eventual
popularity with the Foundling Hospital performances. Different
chapters consider the varying reception the work received in Dublin
and London, the uneasy relationship between the composer and his
librettist Charles Jennens and the many changes Messiah underwent
through the varying needs and capacities of Handel's performers. As
well as tracing the history of the work's development, the book
addresses musical and technical issues such as Messiah's place in
the oratorio genre, Handel's treatment of structural design, tonal
relationships and English word-setting. An edited libretto
elucidates the variants between the text that Handel set and the
texts of the early printed word-books. Donald Burrows brings many
new insights to this fascinating account of one of the favourite
works of the concert hall.
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