“Actually had had a childhood phobia about the trumpet. He…” — Freakonomics Radio at 15:21
“Actually had had a childhood phobia about the trumpet. He hated it. It frightened him. And although he wrote concertos, instrumental concertos, for pretty much every other instrument in the orchestra, he never wrote a trumpet concerto. Around the 25th anniversary of Handel's death, Messiah began receiving even more…”
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