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George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German composer who went to live in England when he was a young man and later became a naturalised Briton. [1] Johann Sebastian Bach and Handel were born in the same year. They were the greatest composers of their time, but they never met.
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0000-00-00. Reworked version of the final aria of the Spanish cantata Nò se emenderá jamás (HWV 140) The Dream or 'Beneath a shady willow'. 0000-00-00. 0000-00-00. Based on the middle section of the opening chorus of Acis and Galatea (HWV 49a) Italian sacred cantata.
Messiah ( HWV 56) [1] [n 1] is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter [n 2] by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere a year later. After an initially modest public reception ...
Händel je nakon dobivanja britanskog državljanstva anglikanizirao ime i postao George Frideric Handel. Ta anglikanizirana forma koristi se ponajviše u engleskom govornom području, dok se germanska forma Georg Friedrich Händel koristi u Njemačkoj i u većini drugih zemalja, no u Francuskoj se njegovo prezime piše Haendel što uzrokuje ...
Real Name: Georg Friedrich Händel. Profile: German Baroque composer, born 23 February 1685 in Halle/Saale, Germany; died 14 April 1759 in London, UK. He spent most of his adult life in England where his name was anglicized to ‘George Frideric [or Frederick] Handel’. Sites:
George Frideric Handel (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) composed works including 42 operas; 24 oratorios; more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets; numerous arias; odes and serenatas; solo and trio sonatas; 18 concerti grossi; and 12 organ concertos. Collected editions of Handel's works include the Händel-Gesellschaft (HG) and the Hallische ...
