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Elijah

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Elijah (1846)
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.

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

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As God the Lord of Israel liveth

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First page of the manuscript

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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