What stimulated Haydn to write his oratorio The Creation?

a. He thought setting the Biblical account of the creation would be morepopular than arranging Darwin's The Origin of the Species

b. A fee offered by a consortium of London merchants that was twenty timeshis annual salary.
c. Religious devotion.
d. Attending performances of Handel's oratorios in London.


d

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