A stellar gift to humanity; a story worth telling
"Georg Friedrich Händel's Messiah, a glorious oratorio that hides a story that deserves to be told. by Alejandro Sada Every time Christmas time approaches, thousands of people around the world listen once again to the magnificent arias and choruses that make up the most celebrated work of sacred music of all time: Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah . Underneath this glorious oratorio lies a story that deserves to be told. The great writer Stefan Zweig even considered it to be one of the highlights of human history, one of those moments that set a new course for the world. On 13 April 1737, Händel , exhausted, ill and overburdened with debts, collapsed from an attack of cerebral palsy that caused a stroke on the right side of his body. His condition is so pitiful that the doctor says: "Perhaps we can keep the man. The musician we have lost. However, with the strength of an irrepressible spirit, the composer travels to the hot baths of Aachen, where after six weeks he is