Introduction 7

1. Handel’s world: Germany, Italy, London, Dublin 13

2. The sacred oratorio: form and context 25

3. Charles Jennens, librettist 37

4. The composition of Messiah and Handel’s ‘borrowings’ 51

5. ‘For this may all your sins be forgiven’: the Dublin premiere 67

6. Handel’s performers and performances 83

7. ‘We shall be changed’: versions and variants 95

8. ‘For ever and ever’: the later performance history of Messiah 105

Conclusion 119

Appendix 1: Scene Structure 121

Appendix 2: Libretto 123

Notes 133

About the Author

Andrew Gant is an author, composer, former Organist of Her Majesty's Chapels Royal, and Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at St Peter's College, Oxford.

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