It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near ...

The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s most famous oratorio is Messiah composed in 1741. When it premiered in Dublin the following year, Handel’s name drew ...

Handel’s Messiah for Our Time is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. The first part of the oratorio foretells the Savior’s coming while the last part ...

moving the music and story along while providing the emotional framework for the piece, making this oratorio unique among similar works of its kind. Handel wrote “Messiah” in 1741, and it was ...