Proclaiming (notably with the popular “Hallelujah” chorus) the coming and resurrection of the Saviour, Messiah remains to this day one of the most popular of Handel’s works. A little under half a century after its 1742 world premiere in Dublin, it was performed for the first time in the revised and rescored German-language version Der Messias created by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The “German Messiah” thus is the fruit of an extraordinary “collaboration” between two geniuses: the scintillating brilliance of Händel as interpreted by Mozart.

Mozart’s arrangement is sung in a new Hungarian translation by Ádám Nádasdy. 

 

AUTHORS

Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel
Music revised by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Original, English-language libretto compiled from biblical passages by: Charles Jennens
Libretto translated into German by: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Christoph Daniel Ebeling
Hungarian text: Ádám Nádasdy
Chorus director: Gábor Csiki
English translation of Ádám Nádasdy's text by: Arthur Roger Crane