Connor Burrowes, John Scott & David Miller - A Hymn on Divine Music

This was facilitated not only by bright creativity. Handel’s personality, he will fulfill. skill, but also the energy of the organizer, democratic. the direction of his quest. Handel's influence was especially evident in the choir. to music. In his oratorios, DOS. in antique, histor. and biblical heroic. plots (“Judas Maccabee”, “Samson”, “Israel in Egypt”, etc. ), for the first time in muses. images embodied the struggle for the freedom-loving ideals of mankind. Ch. the role in them is entrusted to the choirs representing the people. Handel's oratorical work summarizes the traditions of the English. choral culture. At the same time, elements of opera drama play an important role in these oratorios. Handel strove to establish popular democratic ideals in art and set ideological and moral tasks.