September 14, 1741 - "The Messiah" Completed

In only 24 days' time, on September 14, 1741, George Frederick Handel completed his best-known work The Messiah. Having already suffered a stroke when he began, Handel credits drinking a lot of coffee for creating an almost error-free manuscript of 259 pages of music. They don’t call it “The Halleluiah Chorus” for nothing.