The epigraph to this work contains the words Majora canamus, from Vergil's Eclogues, and part of 1 Timothy.
The epigraph to this work contains the words Majora canamus, from Vergil's Eclogues, and part of 1 Timothy. The librettist took liberties with his source text, including changing all the speech of the title character from first person to third person. That librettist, Charles Jennens, took much of his text from the book of Isaiah, while the book of Luke provides the most famous recitative in the work, which begins There were shepherds (*) abiding in the field, as well as one of the more famous choruses, beginning Glory to God in the highest. The work premiered in Dublin in 1742, and its most famous section, from chapter 19 of Revelation, declares that the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. FTP, name this oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel which contains the Hallelujah chorus.
The epigraph to this work contains the words Majora canamus, from Vergil's Eclogues, and part of 1 Timothy.
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