...questioned him on his feelings when composing the Hallelujah Chorus, he replied in his peculiar English, " I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself." C. What a fine saying that was of poor old George III, in describing the Pastoral Symphony in this...

...questioned him on his feelings when composing the Hallelujah Chorus, he replied in his peculiar English, " I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself." <t What a fine saying that was of poor old George III, in describing the Pastoral Symphony in this...

...sometimes find him weeping as he composed. He said of his feelings as he composed the "Hallelujah Chorus": "I did think I did see all heaven before me and the great God himself." And yet at that very time, he was passionate, and intemperate, and profane, and ungodly! The trouble...

...twenty-four days. At the completion of the Hallelujah Chorus he exclaimed, with tears in his eyes, "I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God himself!" And indeed, in contrast to Bach's Passion Music, which represents a service of profound devotion, the...

...churches at Easter-time. It is the triumph of the whole work, the one of which Handel himself said, "I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself," — I mean the Hallelujah chorus. Every one knows it, everyone has been thrilled by the glorious shout...

...of the Hallelujah chorus is impossible to describe. Handel himself says that while composing it: "1 did think I did see all heaven before me and the great God Himself." "Worthy is the Lamb," and the final dignified "Amen" are an exaltation of sounds in which all creation...

...crying, "Eureka!," from his bathtub; how Handel, on finishing the "Hallelujah Chorus," told his servant, "I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God himself"; how Nietzsche wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra: There is an ecstasy such that the immense strain of it...

...fervent expressions of love for one's country. The music emanates good energy. February 23 Proclaim Focus I did think I did see all Heaven before me — and the great God Himself. Where I was, in my body or out of my body, as I wrote it [Messiah], I know not. God knows. George Frideric...

...visitors that were admitted found him alternately weeping or praying, or just staring into eternity. ... 'I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the great God Himself, he is said to have declared upon completing the 'Hallelujah Chorus'. (Lang 1966: 336) It matters not...

...sounds. Handel's words about angelic visitations during his composition of Messiah read as follows: I did think I did see all Heaven before me — and the great God himself. Where I was, in my body or out of my body as I wrote it, I know not. God knows! Main works: Messiah;...