Messiah, an opera resembling concert piece with integrated scriptural text from the Bible, is best known for its choral works. Messiah had little dialogue and no character impersonations just a detailed illustration of Jesus Christ’s life on Earth as the true Messiah through a musical composition
On this day, September 14th, in 1741, George Frederick Handel was complete with his masterpiece and named it Messiah. The process took Handel twenty-four days to complete the 259-page musical composition. He was no stranger to the hastiness of quick production, and a month later he was working on his seventh oratorio.
Surprisingly, Handel’s work was not published until eight years after his death in 1767. Messiah made its debut in Dublin on April 13th 1742 and then London the following year.