Classics for Easter: Handel — I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

Posted on April 21, 2025 
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“The composer Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was born in Germany but settled in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career, becoming a naturalised British subject in 1727. At that time he was mainly composing Italian operas but by the late 1730s their popularity was declining and he was turning to English choral works. In 1738 he completed Saul from a libretto sent to him by English landowner and patron of the arts Charles Jennens.

In July 1741 Jennens sent him a new libretto for an oratorio, drawn from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter, with a few small alterations.…”

– At The Conservative Woman, Margaret Ashworth shares her love for ‘I Know That My Redeemer Liveth’.

Photo: Performance of The Messiah at Sydney Town Hall, 2023.