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In the winter of 1748, Johann Sebastian Bach sat at his desk in Leipzig, his eyesight failing, his hands stiffened by age. He was sixty-three...
At the bottom of nearly every manuscript he composed, Johann Sebastian Bach inscribed three Latin letters: S.D.G. — *Soli Deo Gloria*. To God alone be...
In the late summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel sat at his desk at 25 Brook Street in London, a man whose best years seemed...
In the late 1740s, Johann Sebastian Bach labored in his Leipzig study, his eyesight steadily failing, assembling the final sections of what would become the...
By the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the London music world had written off. His Italian operas no longer drew audiences....
In late August 1741, George Frideric Handel received a libretto from Charles Jennens — a carefully assembled text drawn entirely from the King James Bible...