Handels Messiah: A Celebration
by By Sterling, Diane (EDT) and Luckett, Richard
Category: Music , Instruction & Study , Composition

An authority on eighteenth-century music explores the background and composition of Messiah and gives the complex subsequent history of the work.  Paintings, engravings, caricatures, and facsimiles of Handel's autograph score illustrate the text. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book