# Messiah is first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 to Jennens’s biblical libretto Date: 1742 ## The fact On 13 April 1742 Messiah was first performed in Dublin. This Fact is that premiere as a public English-oratorio instrument, not the 1750 Foundling series and not a unique 24-day composition-myth as a second row. It is one event. ## Context A charity-adjacent sacred concert in English is a cohesion path. Jennens shares the word-book. London’s cooler first reception is a neighbouring season, not this Dublin night. [George Frideric Handel](/people/george-frideric-handel)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Charles Jennens compiled the word-book from the King James Bible and Psalter. Handel composed in late summer 1741 in London. The Great Music Hall, Fishamble Street, is the house. Dublin charities took benefit. Later giant-choir Victorian Messiah is reception, not 1742 forces. Do not attach a modern recording as a Fact. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Britannica’s Messiah article and Smithsonian Magazine’s history independently date the 13 April 1742 Dublin premiere. Official or archival record: Britannica — Messiah (oratorio by Handel) (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Messiah-oratorio-by-Handel; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance A first performance of Messiah is a public-sacred-music path. Confidence high on the date. ## What is established and what is not Established: 13 April 1742 Dublin premiere. Not established: that George II stood in Dublin; that anecdote is a later London legend of weak evidence. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by George Frideric Handel. They are not a public rating. The driver `social-cohesion` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. George Frideric Handel did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Dublin 1742 is not Foundling 1750. Split premiere from hospital series. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of George Frideric Handel. ## People - George Frideric Handel: https://factrail.ai/people/george-frideric-handel ## Drivers - Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion ## Sources - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-glorious-history-of-handels-messiah-148168540/ - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Messiah-oratorio-by-Handel ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gfh-messiah-dublin-1742