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When he wrote Messiah (in 24 days), Handel was past his prime and nearly broke. One night in Dublin changed all that. (Part two of “Making Messiah.”)
- SOURCES:
- Charles King, political scientist at Georgetown University.
- Chris Scobie, curator of music, manuscripts, and archives at the British Library.
- Ellen Harris, musicologist and professor emeritus at MIT.
- Mark Risinger, teacher at St. Bernard’s School.
- Philip Rushforth, organist and master of the choristers at the Chester Cathedral.
- Proinnsías Ó Duinn, conductor and music director of Our Lady’s Choral Society.
- RESOURCES:
- Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah, by Charles King (2024).
- “Arnaud du Sarrat and the international music trade in Halle and Leipzig c.1700,” by Tomasz Górny (Early Music, 2023).
- George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends, by Ellen Harris (2014).
- Handel (Composers Across Cultures), by Donald Burrows (2012).
- “Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759),” by Aileen Adams and B. Hofestädt (Journal Of Medical Biography, 2005).
- Handel’s Messiah: A Celebration: A Richly Illustrated History of the Music and Its Eighteenth-Century Background, by Richard Luckett (1995).
- Handel’s Messiah The Advent Calendar, podcast series.
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