Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
By Charles King
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Amidst the bizarre world of 18th-century British politics, Georg Frideric Handel composed one of the most memorable musical masterpieces ever made. This is the story of its creation, sparing no detail.
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah.
“A work of vivid social and cultural commentary, it functions also as an in-depth study of artistic creation, how ‘Messiah’ came to be, but also of the unstoppable spigot that was Handel’s musical imagination.” —John Adams, The New York ...
“A work of vivid social and cultural commentary, it functions also as an in-depth study of artistic creation, how ‘Messiah’ came to be, but also of the unstoppable spigot that was Handel’s musical imagination.” —John Adams, The New York ...






















