Handle Quel Fior che all;alba ride - Festival Baroque Australia

[ModernOrthodoxy]

Messiah is nothing but borrowing from previous works he had created. Check out "No, di vol non vo 'fidarmi", I bet you will recognize it as well. This is why he was able to write Messiah in 24 days.

[euspbadoggy]

@ModernOrthodoxy That's quite a statement. Handel borrowed the material from a few of his previous works, but the vast majority of Messiah was newly composed. The only movements that were 'borrowed' were "And He Shall Purify," "For Unto Us A Child Is Born," "His Yoke Is Easy," and "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" Everything else was newly composed.

[nicosupersex]

barroque composers did that all the time......

[andreamoboe]

And the second part is the same tune as "And he shall purify" - Ingenius Handel :)

[andreamoboe]

Wow! Interesting duet. Pretty much the same tune from the chorus "His Yoke is Easy" from Handel's Messiah. Lovely duet though :)

[ufayad]

Handel apparently wrote this beforehand and later reworked them for the Messiah...