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Who assembled the biblical texts for Handel’s Messiah?
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel, oil on canvas by Thomas Hudson, c. 1736; in the Foundling Museum, London.
The biblical texts for George Frideric Handel’s Messiah were assembled by his friend Charles Jennens, a wealthy supporter of the arts.1