About this episode
<p>When he wrote <i>Messiah</i> (in 24 days), Handel was past his prime and nearly broke. One night in Dublin changed all that. (Part two of “<a href="https://freakonomics.com/making-messiah/">Making <i>Messiah</i>.</a>”)</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RiHwAAK/charles-eldon-king">Charles King</a>, political scientist at Georgetown University.</li><li>Chris Scobie, curator of music, manuscripts, and archives at the British Library.</li><li><a href="https://mta.mit.edu/person/ellen-t-harris">Ellen Harris</a>, musicologist and professor emeritus at MIT.</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-risinger-011b3659/">Mark Risinger</a>, teacher at St. Bernard's School.</li><li><a href="https://chestercathedral.com/team/philip-rushforth">Philip Rushforth</a>, organist and master of the choristers at the Chester Cathedral.</li><li><a href="https://www.musicintervals.com/">Proinnsías Ó Duinn</a>, conductor and music director of Our Lady's Choral Society.</li></ul></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><strong>RESOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="https://amzn.to/48jWkm8"><i>Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah</i></a><i>, </i>by Charles King (2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://academic.oup.com/em/article/51/3/451/7232473">Arnaud du Sarrat and the international music trade in Halle and Leipzig c.1700</a>," by Tomasz Górny <i>(Early Music,</i> 2023).</li><li><a href="https://amzn.to/4asLICM"><i>George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends</i></a>, by Ellen Harris (2014).</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Handel-Master-Musicians-Donald-Burrows/dp/0199737363"><i>Handel (Composers Across Cultures)</i></a><i>, </i>by Donald Burrows (2012).</li><li>"<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/096777200501300308">Georg Händel (1622–97): The Barber-Surgeon Father of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)</a>," by Aileen Adams and B. Hofestädt <i>(Journal Of Medical Biography,</i> 2005).</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Handels-Messiah-Celebration-Richard-Luckett/dp/0156001381"><i>Handel's Messiah: A Celebration: A Richly Illustrated History of the Music and Its Eighteenth-Century Background</i></a><i>, </i>by Richard Luckett (1995).</li><li><a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/handel-s-messiah-the-advent-calendar--3261710"><i>Handel's Messiah The Advent Calendar</i></a>, podcast series<i>.</i></li></ul></li></ul><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>