About the event
The first performance of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ in Dublin in 1742 is legendary. Why then, did this now famous and much-loved oratorio receive a somewhat cool reception in London less than a year later?
In this talk, Andrew Gant, author of The Making of Handel’s Messiah, explores the composition manuscript and Handel’s own conducting score, held in the Bodleian, as well as the later reception and performance history of what is one of the most successful pieces of choral music of all time.
Andrew’s book, The Making of Handel’s Messiah, is available to buy from the Bodleian shop.
Speakers
Andrew Gant, former Organist of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, and Stipendiary Lecturer in Music at St Peter’s College, Oxford
Booking information
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