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Before I conclude this sketch of Handel, I must introduce you to one more of his Oratorios, "L'Allegro."

From Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Ball, Thomas Hanly

Author of the text of the Oratorios of Joshua and Judas Maccabæus.

From A Brief Handbook of English Authors by Adams, Oscar Fay

Upton, in his valuable work, "Standard Oratorios," calls it "from the highest standpoint the only oratorio yet produced in this country."

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

The Oratorios thrive abundantly-for my part, they give me an idea of heaven, where every body is to sing whether they have voices or not.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

Oratorios, 4, 54; Oratorio of Christus, 54, 90, 95, 101, 104, 193, 194, 328; Oratorio of Petrus, 273.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James