1859 Handel’s MESSIAH Baroque Classical Music Mozart Hallelujah EXQUISITE FOLIO

“I have heard great music--even sublime music. I've heard music fit for princes, for kings. I have heard music fit for any monarch. But that night, for the first time in my life, I heard music fit for God.” ― J. Scott Featherstone, Hallelujah - The Story of the Coming Forth of Handel's Messiah

George Frederick Handel’s ‘Messiah’ is one of the most famous pieces of music to ever be composed. It is most known for the popular chorus ‘Hallelujah,’ but is certainly enjoyable beyond that one chorus. Written in an unprecedented three weeks (which is incredibly fast by standards of that time), Handel wrote all three movements of this orchestrated masterpiece with biblical texts. This work was written at a particularly low point in Handel’s life – he was broke, his health was failing him, and he was critically ridiculed. However, his fortunes changed radically – thanks to ‘Messiah’.

This particular 19th-century printing includes rare accompaniments by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was only three years old when Handel died. Mozart recognized the importance and magnitude of this oratorio and contributed to its lasting legacy.

Item number: #690

Price: $750

HANDEL, George Frederick

Handel's sacred oratorio The Messiah : composed in the year 1741, in full score, including Mozart's additional accompaniments

London : J. Alfred Novello, 1859. First edition.

Details:

Collation complete with all pages: 108, [4]

Binding: Decorative leather; tight & secure

Language: English

Provenance:

Bookplate – Rev. J. Mitchell M.A.

MITCHELL, JOHN MURRAY, LL.D. (Aberdeen)

Born at Aberdeen, 1815. Studied at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1838, missionary to Western India. Married, 1842, Maria H. M. Flyter. In 1863, the illness of Mrs. Mitchell led to retirement from India and to his settlement at Broughty-Ferry, East. In 1867 death and sickness in the missionary staff at Calcutta led Dr. Mitchell to resign his home charge and go out to the Indian capital, where he became Principal of Duff College. During the seven years of his second stay in the East, Dr. Mitchell rendered important service to the educated portion of the community. He also aided in founding the Nagpur and Jalna Bethel Missions, and in consolidating the mission to the Santals. Dr. Mitchell left India in January 1875. In 1883, he took charge of the winter services at Cannes, and thereafter he conducted those at Nice for upwards of ten years. In 1900 Dr. Mitchell was present at the great Union Assembly in the Edinburgh Waverley Market, when to him was assigned the honour of moving the adoption of the Uniting Act. Dr. Mitchell was an accomplished scholar in the Marathi, Sanscrit, Zend, and Persian languages. For many years, he acted as Government Civil Service examiner in the first-named tongue.

Publications. —

Life of Robert Nesbit.

Letters to Indian Youth.

Hinduism, Past and Present.

Elements of Christian Truth.

In Western India: Recollections of My Early Missionary Life.

Foreign Missions of the Protestant Churches.

Handwritten – Reginald Moore

Reginald Moore (1910–1968) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Exeter Cathedral.

Reginald Moore was born in Bramley, Leeds. He was a pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow and held several appointments as organist in and around Leeds before becoming assistant at Salisbury Cathedral in 1933. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force. From 1947 to 1952 he was assistant music master at Winchester College. There were a number of BBC broadcasts of his organ recitals during his tenure at Exeter. In May 2010, Exeter Cathedral held a celebration Evensong marking the centenary of his birth, singing psalm chants and descants written by him.

Assistant Organist of: Salisbury Cathedral (1933–1947)

Organist of: Exeter Cathedral (1953–1957)

Handwritten – H.W. Carpenter

Canon – Vicars Choral; Cathedral in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Handwritten – William S. Day

Secretary for the Ampthill Choral Union Society

Size: ~15.5in X 11.5in (39cm x 29cm)

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