Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas carol authored by Charles Wesley in 1739. The carol, based on Luke 2:8–14, describes an angelic chorus singing of Christ's nativity.
Worship of the Shepherds, 1539, by Bronzino
Felix Mendelssohn
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, simply known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic era. Mendelssohn's compositions include sympho
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
…sing / Glory to the newborn King". Various settings have been used for the carol. Since the mid-19th century, it has usually been sung to a melody from Felix Mendelssohn's Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest (1840), originally composed for the 400th anniversary of the invention of the printing press. "Hymn for Christmas-Day…
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by Eduard Magnus
Felix Mendelssohn aged 12 (1821) by Carl Joseph Begas
First page of the manuscript of Mendelssohn's Octet (1825)
The composer's study in Mendelssohn House, a museum in Leipzig