(the) Hallelujah Chorus

(the) Hallelujah Chorus
the Hallelujah Chorus [the Hallelujah Chorus]
a well-known ↑chorus in the ↑Messiah by George Frederick Handel. The music expresses great joy. According to tradition, the audience always stands up while the Hallelujah Chorus is being sung, because King ↑George II did this at the first London performance of the Messiah in 1743.

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