Georg Friedrich Händel – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

DER MESSIAS (MESSIAH) – concert

concert 14

In Brief

Oratorio in three parts, in Hungarian, with Hungarian and English subtitles

Performance length: , without intermissions
Proclaiming (notably with the popular “Hallelujah” chorus) the coming and resurrection of the Saviour, Messiah remains to this day one of the most popular of Handel’s works. A little under half a century after its 1742 world premiere in Dublin, it was performed for the first time in the revised and rescored German-language version Der Messias created by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The “German Messiah” thus is the fruit of an extraordinary “collaboration” between two geniuses: the scintillating brilliance of Händel as interpreted by Mozart.
Mozart’s arrangement is sung in a new Hungarian translation by Ádám Nádasdy.