Messiah. : an oratorio / set to musick by George-Frederic Handel.

Record ID: 
112556
Creator: 
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
Title: 
Messiah. : an oratorio / set to musick by George-Frederic Handel.
Uniform title: 
Messiah. Libretto
Published: 
London : Printed and sold by Thos. Wood, 1743.
Notes: 

Libretto by Charles Jennens.
The only known copy of the word-book for the first performances of Messiah in London, in March 1743. Cf. Burrows, Donald, and Watkins Shaw. Handel's Messiah : supplementary notes on sources, in Music & letters 76 (1995), p. 366-368.

Associated names: 

Jennens, Charles, 1700-1773, librettist.
Wood, Thomas, publisher.

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