Elijah

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Elijah
by Felix Mendelssohn
Elijah is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1846 for the Birmingham Festival. It depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament.— Excerpted from Elijah (oratorio) on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

See also: The history of Mendelssohn's oratorio 'Elijah'.


As God the Lord of Israel liveth

Felix Mendelssohn Elijah arranged for duet 1.jpg

First page of the manuscript
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