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The Premiere of Handel’s Messiah – Dublin, 1742
In 1742, over 700 people crowded into the Great Musick Hall in Dublin to hear Handel lead the performance of his choral masterpiece. In view of the numbers, ladies were requested to come "without hoops," and gentlemen without swords. Critics were unanimous - this was "the finest Composition of Musick that ever was heard."