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September 14: Hallelujah

On 14 September 1741, German composer George Frideric Handel completed his oratorio, the Messiah. The libretto for the oratorio had been compiled by Charles Jennens. The Messiah was first performed in Dublin, Ireland on the 13 April 1742. Handel had initially made his fame writing Italian operas, but around 1737 he began to write in […]