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''' The Messiah ''' (1742) is an oratorio by [[Georg Frideric Haendel]] (mus.) and [[Charles Jennens]] (libr.).

==Abstract==
One of the most popular fictional works on Jesus, still widely performed.

==Editions, translations==
Premiered at Fishamble St. in Dublin, Ireland.

Printed score (Hamburg, Germany: 1889-92).

==Synopsis==

; Part I: "The prophecy and realisation of God's plan to redeem mankind by the coming of the Messiah"
: [[Messiah Part I#Scene 1|Scene 1]]: "Isaiah's prophecy of salvation" (movements 2–4)
: [[Messiah Part I#Scene 2|Scene 2]]: "The prophecy of the coming of Messiah and the question, despite (1), of what this may portend for the World" (movements 5–7)
: [[Messiah Part I#Scene 3|Scene 3]]: "The prophecy of the Virgin Birth" (movements 8–12)
: [[Messiah Part I#Scene 4|Scene 4]]: "The appearance of the Angels to the Shepherds" (movements 13–17)
: [[Messiah Part I#Scene 5|Scene 5]]: "Christ's redemptive miracles on earth" (movements 18–21)
; Part II: "The accomplishment of redemption by the sacrifice of Christ, mankind's rejection of God's offer, and mankind's utter defeat when trying to oppose the power of the Almighty"
: [[Messiah Part II#Scene 1|Scene 1]]: "The redemptive sacrifice, the scourging and the agony on the cross" (movements 22–30)
: [[Messiah Part II#Scene 2|Scene 2]]: "His sacrificial death, His passage through Hell and Resurrection" (movements 31–32)
: [[Messiah Part II#Scene 3|Scene 3]]: "His ascension" (movement 33)
: [[Messiah Part II#Scene 4|Scene 4]]: "God discloses his identity in Heaven" (movements 34–35)
: [[Messiah Part II#Scene 5|Scene 5]]: "Whitsun, the gift of tongues, the beginning of evangelism" (movements 36–39)
: [[Messiah Part II#Scene 6|Scene 6]]: "The world and its rulers reject the Gospel" (movements 40–41)
: [[Messiah Part II#Scene 7|Scene 7]]: "God's triumph" (movements 42–44)
; Part III: "A Hymn of Thanksgiving for the final overthrow of Death"
: [[Messiah Part III#Scene 1|Scene 1]]: "The promise of bodily resurrection and redemption from Adam's fall" (movements 45–46)
: [[Messiah Part III#Scene 2|Scene 2]]: "The Day of Judgement and general Resurrection" (movements 47–48)
: [[Messiah Part III#Scene 3|Scene 3]]: "The victory over death and sin" (movements 49–52)
: [[Messiah Part III#Scene 4|Scene 4]]: "The glorification of the Messianic victim" (movement 53)

==Biography==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_%28Handel%29 Wikipedia]



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