sentences:  Right from their composition the four anthems have been popular and regularly played in concerts and festivals even during Handel's own lifetime.He re-used substantial extracts from them in many of his oratorios without many changes (other than to the text), notably "Esther" and "Deborah".Two of the anthems were played at the 1742 inauguration of the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, a hall dedicated to chamber music.