Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Antiphon Salve Regina, HWV 241, was composed by George Friederic Handel mid-1707. It is most likely that the work was first performed on 16 July 1707 in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto, under the patronage of the Colonna family. Based on the Marian anthem with its supplicatory text, the opening and closing movements are slow and reflective and frame a vigorous allegro movement.