“Whether I was in my body or out of my body I know not. God knows it!”

— George Frideric Handel

Quoted in The Harvard Magazine (December 1862), p. 141.
On composing the "Hallelujah Chorus" in 1741.

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German, later British Baroque composer 1685–1759

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