...describe. To hear it is to feel what Handel felt while composing this greatest of all choruses : " I did think I did see all heaven before me and the great God Himself." In the serener, more contemplative, and shorter third part we find the composer's powers by no means...

...Handel describes his sensations when writing " The Messiah " in the following words : " I did think that I did see all Heaven before me and the great God Himself." " The Sacred Oratorio," as Handel always called his " Messiah," has kept its hold upon the world; he...

...With regard to the composition of the "Hallelujah" chorus, the great Saxon is recorded to have said, "I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself." The very "forms" utilized in oratorio, though similar to those in opera, are of a more solid and perhaps...

...they often were is best told in his own words when describing his sensations in writing 'The Messiah': 'I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself.' Haydn is a romantic in his keen perception and manipulation of the capacities of his orchestral instruments....

...With regard to the composition of the "Hallelujah" chorus, the great Saxon is recorded to have said, " I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the good God himself." 1 WS Rockstro in the "Oratorio" article, Grove's Dictionary. II The very "forms"...

...the score of the "Messiah" in fourteen days. Speaking to someone of the "Hallelujah Chorus," he said: "I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the feet of God Himself." It is said of him, also, that his tears mingled with the ink as he penned the...

...he was borne from the scene — his farewell to world. Of his work upon the Messiah, Handel said, " I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the Great God himself." The piety of the peerless Sebastian Bach needs no demonstration. The same fact is as true of luusic...

...Messiah" believed himself inspired. "I did think," he used to say in his quaint German-English fashion, "I did see all heaven before me and the great God himself." When "The Messiah" was first produced in London (1743), at the rendering of the "Hallelujah" chorus,...

...have streamed down the cheeks of Handel when, as he said, in composing the " Hallelujah " chorus, " I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself." The whole Messiah is said to have been composed by Handel in twenty-four days. I think we look now...

...with the " Hallelujah Chorus," his servant found him at the table, tears streaming from his eyes. " I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God Himself ! " he exclaimed. Of a certainty, Handel was swept by some influence not of the world during that month...