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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Help! The Handel is Baroque....or...

George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
...maybe not.  Mozart actually updated Handel's Messiah Oratorio without all the Baroque period common ingredients, such as harpsichords during the recitatives.

Here's a sample.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
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