Word: maccabaeus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Composer Handel, martial, romantic, won fame for impressive oratorios, the best known among them being The Messiah, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus. Lately, led by the University of Gottingen, Germans have resurrected some of the operas their countryman used to compose, sometimes in a fortnight's time, for production at the Haymarket Theatre, in the London of Addison and Steele, Alexander Pope and George I, the music-loving Hanoverian...