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Rh of the City of London, and he wrote two oratorios, which were, so to speak, immense national hymns: the Occasional Oratorio, where Handel called the English to rise up against invasion, and Judas Maccabæus (July 9 to August 11, 1746), the Hymn of Victory, written after the rout of the rebels at Culloden Moor, and for the fête on the return of the conqueror, the ferocious Duke of Cumberland, to whom the poem was dedicated.

These two patriotic oratorios, where Handel's heart beat with that of England, and of which the second, Judas Maccabæus, has retained even to our own day its great popularity, thanks to its broad style and the spirit which animates it, brought