In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This work premiered as part of a charity concert series and was troubled by last-minute rearrangements and other production difficulties. After various demands from Jonathan Swift, the dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, the work was finally allowed to premiere on April 13, 1741 in Dublin. The work is divided into three parts, all dealing with different aspects of the life of what the composer considered the title entity. Famous arias from the work include I know that my Redeemer liveth, and Every Valley shall be exalted. The finale chorus of the work is borrowed from Revelation, while a good deal of the remaining libretto is taken from the Old Testament. FTP, name this oratorio by George Frederic Handel, most famous for the chorus Hallelujah.
Fine Arts

The central character, a resident of the San Bernadino Arms, falls in with such characters as Harry, a purveyor of homemade silver polish, and Miguel, a Mexican breeder of fighting cocks. There's also Abe Kusich, a dwarf horse player, and Earle Stroop, an unsuccessful cowboy actor. This novel famously ends with a riot at the Persian Palace during which Homer Simpson likely dies and the protagonist Tod Hackett, barely escapes. FTP, name this short novel by Nathaniel West.
Literature

Near this work's end, we hear of a count of known munificence. The title character's "spot of joy" was a "faint half flush that [died] along her throat," but in an ominous moment the speaker states, "I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together. "  The speaker mentions his "nine-hundred-years-old name" and points out a bronze sculpture of a sea-horse being tamed by Neptune. "A heart...too soon made glad" is considered a failing of the title character, whose likeness is preserved in a painting by Fr Pandolf. FTP name this Robert Browning poem in which a Duke discusses a dead wife.

Literature