About this episode
When he wrote Messiah (in 24 days), Handel was past his prime and nearly broke. One night in Dublin changed all that. (Part two of “ Making Messiah . ”) SOURCES: Charles King , political scientist at Georgetown University. Chris Scobie, curator of music, manuscripts, and archives at the British Library. Ellen Harris , musicologist and professor emeritus at MIT. Mark Risinger , teacher at St. Bernard's School. Philip Rushforth , organist and master of the choristers at the Chester Cathedral. Proinnsías Ó Duinn , conductor and music director of Our Lady's Choral Society. RESOURCES: Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah , by Charles King (2024). " Arnaud du Sarrat and the international music trade in Halle and Leipzig c.1700 ," by Tomasz Górny (Early Music, 2023). George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends , by Ellen Harris (2014). Handel (Composers Across Cultures) , by Donald Burrows (2012). " Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) ," by Aileen Adams and B. Hofestädt (Journal Of Medical Biography, 2005). Handel's Messiah: A Celebration: A Richly Illustrated History of the Music and Its Eighteenth-Century Background , by Richard Luckett (1995). Handel's Messiah The Advent Calendar , podcast series . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.