Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: Aria. "Why Do the Nations"

Recording by George Frideric Handel.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
FRZ208302238
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xaf881b97fa9a2b2a64aba7762f39c673bff23140faf9eb9d35d0a17242cca7b1
Copyright registration time
2026-06-23T02:53:00+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:e3f000a45b6968effa304fff6ce5a8b171b64a7106ebf416b1df6f297a4dc962

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

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