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From:  leskayc@a...
leskayc@a...
Date:  Mon Dec 3, 2001  5:47 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] MESSIAH question


In a message dated 12/3/01 10:58:51 AM Central Standard Time,
LYNDA313@a... writes:
LYNDA313@a... writes:


> Jennens wrote the libretto (in English) and then Handel set it to music.
>
>

Well Hallelujah! That answers that! Were Jennens and Handel friends? Would
Jennens have come to Handel and asked him to put the words to music? Or was
this some type of published work that Handel took upon himself to put to
music?

I really need to go do laundry but I would much rather be an academic at this
moment in time................

Leslie




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