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		Jennens was annoyed with Handel, it is thought primarily, because he did not open his London season with a performance of Messiah and the short length of time he took in its composition.
		Jennens felt he should have expended at least a year on it because of its sacred significance.
		Handel and Jennens appear to have patched up their relationship during this period due in part to the death of another of Handel’s librettists and changes he made to Messiah at Jennens insistence.
	www.sarasotachoralsociety.org /Messiah.htm (2223 words)

	Handel
		George Frederick Handel was a frequent visitor to the Gopsall Estate and composed the music to his masterpiece "The Messiah" under a temple in the grounds of the estate.
		Charles was a writer of some note and also wrote the words to Handel's "Saul" in 1737.
		As well as his literary aspirations, Charles was well known for his affluent life-style and commuted in first class comfort on the "Flying Shuttle" stagecoach between his grandfather's 1,000 acre estate and a town house in Great Ormond Street, London.
	www.hinckley-online.co.uk /handel.shtml (265 words)

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		Jennens' intention was to produce a work suitable for performance in Holy Week, when theatrical productions were banned and Handel could therefore be assured of large audiences.
		Jennens, hearing the work for the first time declared himself dissatisfied with some unspecified 'weak parts' and Handel briefly succumbed to a return of the 'paralytic Disoder' that had affected him in 1737.
		Handel set his libretto for Belshazzar and apparently made some revisions, at Jennens' suggestion, for the revival of Messiah in 1745, though it is not clear what these werre.
	www3.ouk.edu.tw /wester/composer/Messiah/Messiah1.HTM (623 words)

	Antonio Vivaldi: a detailed informative biography
		In 1733 he met the English traveler, Edward Holdsworth, who had been commissioned to purchase a few of Vivaldi's compositions for the man of letters, Charles Jennens, author of texts for oratorios by Handel.
		In 1738 Vivaldi was in Amsterdam where he conducted a festive opening concert for the 100th Anniversary of the Schouwburg Theater.
		His stay in Vienna was to be shortlived however, for he died on July 28th 1741 "of internal fire" (probably the asthmatic bronchitis from which he suffered all his life) and, like Mozart fifty years later, received a modest burial.
	www.baroquemusic.org /bqxvivaldi.html (1723 words)

	Handel's Messiah
		Such figures are often forgotten by the over-simplification of history, but Jennens' upper-middle class background enabled him to live in some comfort at a fine house in Gospall, Leicestershire, and devote his time to artistic pursuits in the absence of a prominent public life.
		Jennens had been a known admirer of Handel's music since 1725, when he commenced regular subscriptions for publications of Handel's operas by ordering a copy of Rodelinda.
		Some earlier changes were simply made to satisfy the discontented Jennens (the choral version of "Their sound is gone out" replaced a less effective setting in a passage of the first version of "How beautiful are the feet").
	gfhandel.org /messiah.htm (2273 words)

	Levegood and Levergood Family History and Genealogy - Person Page 1872
		Baptism: Charles Jennens was baptized 21 April 1845 in St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.
		Marriage: Charles* Jennens married Hephzibah Rhoda Brooke Hunter on 3 February 1867 at St. Luke's, Aston, Warwickshire, England.
		Death: Charles* Jennens died on Saturday, 29 April 1899 at 19 Northwood Street, Hockley, Warwickshire, England, at age 54.
	www.levergood.privat.t-online.de /family/report/p1872.htm (211 words)

	Classical Domain: Handel's Messiah In New York City
		However, despite his merit and ability, Jennens never gained his Degree or much recognition from society because he was a non-juror, refusing to acknowledge the Hanoverian dynasty as legitimate heirs to the throne of England.
		For this occasion Jennens used his influence to supervise the wordbook — the 1743 equivalent of what you are reading now — and presents the work very much as if it were an opera, organised into three distinct ‘Acts’ and subdivided into scenes:
		Some earlier changes were simply made to satisfy the discontented Jennens (the choral version of ”Their sound is gone out“ replaced a less effective setting in a passage of the first version of “ How beautiful are the feet”).
	www.classicaldomain.com /messiahtext.html (1521 words)

	about This Performance of George Friderick Handel's Messiah
		Since this could not achieve universal recognition and approval because of the shortage of instruments and personnel, Prout decided to replace the harpsichord by a piano in a few recitatives, and by a group of woodwind (sometimes brass) in the arias.
		Jennens enjoyed arranging domestic performances off Handel, amassing not only the scores but sets of parts suitable for a medium-sized ensemble.
		Their treatment of it combines respect with devotion, and the fact that Handel set the complete libretto in the unbelievably short space of 23 days, subsequently putting it on one side, shows that for once he was not thinking consciously of a commercial possibility but unknowingly of a spiritual certainty.
	www.messiahcd.com /Information/about_This_Performance/about_this_performance.html (2562 words)

	Amazon.com: "Charles Jennens": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Charles Jennens was presumably in London at this time and attended Handel's performances: he and JH both subscribed to John Walsh's printed...
		Charles Jennens tells us in his annotations to his copy of Main- waring's biography of Handel that Semele was called 'by fools'...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Charles-Jennens (553 words)

	Handel's Messiah & The Destruction of Jerusalem
		Jennens had the discernment to see that he couldn’t thwart his adversaries simply by producing reading matter insisting that biblical texts be understood both typologically and as Jesus-centered.
		Jennens took his reading from Henry Hammond, the great 17th-century Anglican biblical scholar, whose extended and fiercely erudite commentary on Psalm 2 suggests the advantage of “nations” over “heathen”: “Nations” can readily include the Jews.
		Jennens undoubtedly got the idea of juxtaposing these passages directly from Hammond, who wrote: “Now at Revelation 11 is fulfilled that prophecy of Psalm 2.
	www.preteristarchive.com /ARTchive/1742_handel_messiah.html (2915 words)

	HANDEL/MESSIAH 2SACD - elusivedisc
		Messiah was the brainchild of Charles Jennens (1700-73), the cultivated and erudite son of an English landowner enriched by his family’s iron business.
		Christian doctrine was under attack, and Messiah is Jennens’ defense of the central Christian teaching that Jesus was the redeemer through whom God revealed himself.
		Jennens’ selection of texts emphasizes the benevolence of God and the community of believers, rather than (as in Bach’s Passions) the suffering of Christ and the responsibility of the individual.
	www.elusivedisc.com /prodinfo.asp?number=HMSAM1928 (215 words)

	Charles Jennens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	imdb.com /name/nm0421058 (152 words)

	Boston Cecilia: Handel's Saul, Program Notes
		What Jennens had that appealed to Handel was a refined sense of dramatic principles, a knack for portraying complex characters with economy of means, the ability to synthesize material from various sources into a coherent narrative, and a gift on occasion for vivid imagery.
		Jennens had a poetic soul, if not always the poet's tongue.
		Handel wrote Saul during the summer of 1738, consistent with his customary practice: composition during the warm months; copying, revising and rehearsing in the fall; performances during the winter and spring.
	www.bostoncecilia.org /prognotes/handel-saul.html (807 words)

	The Lyra Baroque Orchestra > Events > Program Notes > November 2000: Messiah (I)
		Messiah began life harmlessly enough: Charles Jennens sent Handel a libretto that he had compiled from scriptural passages, which Handel set to music in the summer of 1741, and took with him to Dublin.
		As if this weren't enough, Handel found his work caught in the middle of a raging controversy about the propriety of presenting this subject matter as an entertainment.
		Somewhere, Handel is thumbing his nose at Charles Jennens.
	www.lyrabaroque.org /events/archive/2000messiah.html (197 words)

	Charles JENNENS
		ITIS BELIEVED ELIZABETH DIED ON THE VOYAGE AND SARAH ROWE WAS A WIDOW WITH 2 YOUNG CHILDREN
		Charles married Elizabeth BROWN on 16 May 1838 in Botus Fleming,Cornwall,England.
		Charles next married Sarah Ann BLOOMER in 1842 in Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~kiwiadams/3549.htm (199 words)

	Charles Jennens of Gopsall Quotes
		1 Quotes for 'Charles Jennens of Gopsall' in the Database.
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	www.worldofquotes.com /author/Charles-Jennens-of-Gopsall/1 (43 words)

	Drama in the music. Robert Hugill muses on the staging of Handel's oratorios
		Charles Jennens, who wrote a number of librettos for Handel, added his own notes to his copy of Mainwaring's biography of Handel.
		In the list of Handel's works, Jennens divides the oratorios into a number of categories: Serenata, Ode, Oratorio, Opera -- this is where he makes his memorable comment about Semele being a bawdy opera.
		It is tempting to take this at face value, and regard Semele and Hercules as English operas pure and simple.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/09/handel2.htm (554 words)

	The Art Fund - Portrait of Charles Jennens
		Three quarter length portrait, standing, wearing a grey coat and waistcoat with gold brocade and a white wig.
		Jennens was Handel's librettist and wrote 'The Messiah';
		The Art Fund cannot be help responsible for views expressed by visitors of this website.
	www.artfund.org /artwork/7121/portrait-of-charles-jennens (83 words)

	Handel’s Messiah - Music - New York Times
		His work was an influence on the librettist Charles Jennens, bottom, who collaborated on Messiah”; with Handel, top.
		The high point, inevitably, is the “Hallelujah” chorus, all too familiar from its use in strange surroundings, from Mel Brooks’s “History of the World, Part 1,” where it signified the origins of music among cavemen, to television advertising for behemoth all-terrain vehicles.
		Relevant contemporary British sources have virtually nothing positive to say on that subject and very little that is even neutral.
	www.nytimes.com /2007/04/08/arts/music/08mari.html?ex=1333684800&en=35501dfb8dba7a85&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (889 words)

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