The tale of the Messiah used in this work is not the Jennens text set by Handel, but an excerpt from a massive epic poem by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, one of the forerunners of German Romanticism. Telemann also set a different version of it. Like Milton, who took two books to do it, Klopstock condenses the biblical story, from the Fall of Man to Christ's resurrection, into a single arc, adding nonbiblical characters while he's at it. The setting is by Andreas Romberg, a North German composer who probably knew the young ...
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The tale of the Messiah used in this work is not the Jennens text set by Handel, but an excerpt from a massive epic poem by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, one of the forerunners of German Romanticism. Telemann also set a different version of it. Like Milton, who took two books to do it, Klopstock condenses the biblical story, from the Fall of Man to Christ's resurrection, into a single arc, adding nonbiblical characters while he's at it. The setting is by Andreas Romberg, a North German composer who probably knew the young Beethoven in Bonn and later moved on to Hamburg (no word on whether he's related to Sigmund Romberg). It was there where the first version of this work was composed, in 1793. The work is a small oratorio, with solo parts for three angels, Adam, Eve, and an imagined offstage "voice of the Messiah," but a good deal of the action takes place in the choir, which embodies several different groups over the course of the work's three sections. Annotator Klaus Werner tries to set Romberg up...
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