# Samson premieres on 18 February 1743 as Handel’s Miltonic oratorio after Messiah Date: 1743 ## The fact Britannica dates Samson to February 1743, drawing on Milton’s Samson Agonistes. Libretto adapter Hamilton and Covent Garden forces share the night. It is one event. ## Context Messiah Dublin 1742 neighbours. Judas Maccabaeus follows mid-decade. [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. Post-Messiah English oratorio boom; blindness themes foreshadow Handel’s own later loss. 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 and Handel House independently date Samson 1743. Official or archival record: Britannica — George Frideric Handel (https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance A Miltonic oratorio premiere is an edu path for literary-musical literacy. ## What is established and what is not Established: February 1743 Samson premiere. Not established: that Milton estate licensed it in a modern sense. 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. 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. Do not merge with Jephtha’s later blindness composition. 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. 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. Do not merge with Jephtha’s later blindness composition. 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 - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://handelhendrix.org/discover/learn-about-handel - https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Frideric-Handel ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gfh-samson-1743