flattery in excess." Jennens was the grandson of Birmingham ironmaster Sir Humphrey Jennens, of Eddington Hall, Warwickshire. Charles Jennens' first cousin,...
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was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its...
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William Jennens (1701–1798), English financier Aaron Jennens (fl. 1815–1864), a partner in papier-mâché producers Jennens and Bettridge David Jennens (1929–2000)...
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Rice, followed by Don Black Bertold Hummel: Hermann Hesse Handel: Charles Jennens Richard Wagner Arrigo Boito Modest Mussorgsky Leoš Janáček Olivier...
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God for his triumph over the Whore of Babylon. It is this usage that Charles Jennens extracted for the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's Messiah. This transliteration...
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Hall 1685 - 1690: Humphrey Jennens 1690 - 1747: Charles Jennens senior 1747 - 1773: Charles Jennens, grandson of Humphrey Jennens 1773 - 1797: Penn Assheton...
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parts. The wordbook (also called libretto or text) was supplied by Charles Jennens. This article covers Part I and describes the relation of the musical...
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subject of legal wrangles (Jennens v Jennens) in the Court of Chancery for well over a century despite the fact that all Jennen's real and personal estate...
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of the dead and Christ's glorification in heaven. The libretto by Charles Jennens is entirely drawn from the Bible, mostly from the King James Bible...
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composers. "How Beautiful Are the Feet" – 3:35 - George Frideric Handel/Charles Jennens "Sheep May Safely Graze" – 3:43 - Johann Sebastian Bach/Salomo Franck...
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Philosophical controversy Anthony Bliss John Jackson Johann Georg Hamann Charles Jennens Religious thought of Edmund Burke Richard Blackmore § Non-epic writing...
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with Charles Jennens, a wealthy landowner and lover of the arts, who also provided the texts for Messiah and other oratorios of Handel. Jennens wrote...
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Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens, who also compiled the biblical texts for Handel's Messiah. It is composed...
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and it was not until the 1680s that Herbert found a true successor in Charles Blount (1654 – 1693). The appearance of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human...
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Generale nomen: Servius, note to Aeneid 12.139. Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879). A Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Charlton T....
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Watchmaker analogy (section Charles Darwin)
akin to a watch, wherein the watchmaker is God." The 1859 publication of Charles Darwin's book on natural selection put forward an alternative explanation...
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operas to English choral works. In Saul, Handel was collaborating with Charles Jennens and experimenting with three trombones, a carillon and extra-large...
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1739 King's Theatre, London Charles Jennens Stanford 54 Israel in Egypt 4 April 1739 King's Theatre, London Charles Jennens? Stanford 55 L'Allegro, il...
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tables for their musical setting and biblical sources. The libretto by Charles Jennens is drawn from the Bible: mostly from the Old Testament of the King...
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Philosophical controversy Anthony Bliss John Jackson Johann Georg Hamann Charles Jennens Religious thought of Edmund Burke Richard Blackmore § Non-epic writing...
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Philosophical controversy Anthony Bliss John Jackson Johann Georg Hamann Charles Jennens Religious thought of Edmund Burke Richard Blackmore § Non-epic writing...
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television mini series: Aristocrats and Wives and Daughters as Charles Bunbury and Sir Charles Morton respectively. In the 2000s, his television roles included...
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Philosophical controversy Anthony Bliss John Jackson Johann Georg Hamann Charles Jennens Religious thought of Edmund Burke Richard Blackmore § Non-epic writing...
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the two poems into a singular "moral design", at Handel's request, Charles Jennens added a new poem, "il Moderato", to create a third movement. Stella...
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Humphrey Jennens, the ironmaster of Erdington, was authorised by the Sherwood Forest Court to enclose nearby Sansom Wood. In January 1709 Charles Jennens (son...
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firstly Esther Hanmer, daughter of William Hanmer and Elizabeth Jennens (sister of Charles Jennens), in 1756. After her death in July 1764, he married secondly...
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John Mainwaring, with marginal comments by his friend and librettist Charles Jennens, early editions of operas and oratorios prints, paintings sculptures...
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to a libretto that Charles Jennens had compiled from the King James translation of the Bible (mostly the Old Testament). Jennens commented that: "the...
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would not write. Harsh criticism is also known from Messiah librettist Charles Jennens, who recorded it was "a baudy Opera". The suggestion Semele was "profane"...
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This library of rare manuscripts had originally been collected by Charles Jennens, a close friend of George Frederic Handel, and was later held in the...
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