Handel’s — and Jennens’s — ‘Messiah’ | Apologetics thru art
“Messiah” may be the greatest work in the canon of Western music. You know the composer—Handel. But do you know the author? As one wag put it, “In the orchestra world, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is just as much an annual Christmas tradition as eggnog and overworked shopping mall Santas.” Handel’s magnum opus