Word: prout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these he sometimes added oboes, bassoons and horns. After Handel's death (1759), well-wishers by the dozens set to work "modernizing" the Messiah: Mozart added new parts for violins and violas, used wind instruments in parts previously reserved for the organ or harpsichord; English Composer Ebenezer Prout in 1902 brought out a thickly orchestrated edition retaining most of Mozart's additions (but printing them in small notes). Today some 50 different versions exist, most of them based on either Mozart or Prout. Anxious to spread the Handel sound on stereo, record companies have brought out four...