HANDEL'S "MESSIAH"
Sir-A concert leaflet issued by the NZBS concerning the above work contained the following statement: "The first public perfomance of Messiah was for charity, on 13th April, 1742, in Dublin. Unaccountably, however, its success was not repeated in London where the first performances were not even noticed by the journals of the day ... but in 1750 it was performed with tremendous success." The explanation, furnished by Grove, is simple. The work fell flat in 1743 because it wasn’t good enough. Handel himself was fully aware of its deficiencies, so he resolved to revise and re-write it, a task that occupied several months, The result was a vast improvement on the original, which was written in haste and repented at leisure.
L. D.
AUSTIN
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 11
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126HANDEL'S "MESSIAH" New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 11
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