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If you enjoy listening to handel's Messiah during the Christmas season, you may enjoy this brief account of it's composition. 

“When his operas and his health began to fail, Handel sank into bankruptcy and despair, believing his career was over. In 1741, he was invited to Ireland to direct one of his works at a charity performance. Handel decided to write a new oratorio.”

Read the full story here.