In a message dated 12/3/01 11:36:25 AM, leskayc@a... writes:
<< it says "words selected from Holy Scripture by Charles
Jennens." Now I know Handel did not write this in English, but are the
scripture passages that we sing the same ones that Handel used? Or am I
totally confused and did he only write this music and someone else put the
words to it? >>
I think that you might be confusing Messiah (which was composed to the
English text) wih Haydn's Creation, which (if memory serves) was set to
German.
Judy
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