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	George Frideric Handel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Handel was born at Halle in Saxony in 1685, coincidentally in the same year that Johann Sebastian Bach was born.
		Handel's compositions include some fifty operas, twenty-three oratorios, and a large amount of church music, not to speak of his superb instrumental pieces, such as the organ concerti, the Opus 6 Concerti Grossi, the Water Music, and the Fireworks Music.
		Handel is the owner of Garfield in a past life of the TV special Garfield: His 9 Lives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Frederick_Handel (1063 words)

	HANDEL - LoveToKnow Article on HANDEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Handel and Matheson made much music on this occasion, but did not compete, because they found that the successful candidate was required to accept the hand of the elderly daughter of the retiring organist.
		Handels artistic conscience was that of the most easy-going opportunist, or he would never have continued till 1741 to work in a field that gave so little scope for his genius.
		Handel did not see in it a fine opening for a great ecclesiastical work, but he saw in it an admirable expression of popular jubilation, and he understood how to bring out its character with the liveliest sense of climax and dramatic interest by taking it at its own value as a popular tune.
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	George Frideric Handel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Handel was born at (A city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries) Halle in (An area in Germany around the upper Elbe river; the original home of the Saxons) Saxony.
		During the years 1707-1709 Handel traveled and studied in (A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD) Italy.
		Handel lived at 25 Brook Street, (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London from 1723 until his death in 1759.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/george_frideric_handel.htm (1064 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - George Frederick Handel
		George Frederick Handel was born on February 23, 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, in the city of Halle, in the county of Saxony, in what is now Germany.
		Handel's father was a surgeon at the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, and his mother was the daughter of a Lutheran minister.
		Handel was a member of the violin section of the opera orchestra, and in 1705, he conducted the first performance of his opera Almira..
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Handel.html (833 words)

	George Frederick Handel
		In 1717 Handel succeeded Pepusch as chapel master to the Duke of Chandos.
		Handel's London years were occupied primarily with the writing of Italian operas.
		Handel is mentioned in a letter (1775) from Carl Philip Emanuel to Forkel as one whose works his father had especially valued in later years.
	www.citychoir.org.uk /Handel.htm (280 words)

	HOASM: George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
		Handel was intended for a lawyer; but; in spite of his father's strenuous opposition, he secretly taught himself to play the harpsichord.
		In 1692, when Handel was seven years old, his father took him on a visit to his elder step-brother, valet at the court of Saxe-Weissenfels; here the boy gained access to the chapel organ, and was heard by the Duke, who insisted on his receiving a good musical education.
		Handel was peculiarly fortunate in coming to England just as the ebb of English national stage-music after the death of Purcell (from whom he learned much) was turning toward the flood tide of Italian opera.
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	Encyclopedia: George Frederick Handel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In 1927 Handel's opera Scipio (Scipione) was performed for the first time, the march from which remains the regimental slow march of the British Grenadier Guards.
		Handel's works were edited by S. Arnold (40 vols., London, 1786), and by F.
		In 2000 the upper storeys of 25 Brook Street were leased to the Handel House Trust, and, after an extensive restoration programme, the Handel House Museum opened to the public on 8 November 2001.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Frederick-Handel (890 words)

	About George Frederick Handel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Born Georg Frederich Handel in 1685, the second son to the physician Georg Handel, who was well over 60 years of age and married for the second time.
		The senior Handel was distinguished in Halle and the court of Saxe Weissenfels, and was acquainted with many of the court musicians.
		Handel stayed in England in the household of Lord Burlington until the sudden death of Queen Anne in August 1714, and George, Elector of Hanover, was crowned George I. Handel regained favor with the crown with the success of Amadigi and was invited to accompany the king on a visit to Hanover in July 1716.
	www.sarasotachoralsociety.org /Handel.htm (820 words)

	Organ Composers: George Frederic Handel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The prolific composer George Friedrich Handel had an early affinity for music, but he was not always encouraged in that direction by his barber-surgeon father.
		Handel took quickly to his studies, and by age twelve, he himself was assistant organist of the Cathedral.
		Handel returned to Germany in 1710 and was appointed Kappellmeister to the Elector of Hannover.
	www.byu.edu /music/areas/keyboard/Organ/composers/handel.html (475 words)

	Learn more about George Frideric Handel in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Georg Friedrich Händel, (February 23, 1685 - April 14, 1759) was a Baroque music composer.
		At the age of seven he was a skillful performer on the piano and organ, and at nine he began to compose music.
		In 1710 Handel became Kapellmeister to George, elector of Hanover, afterward George I of the United Kingdom.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/ge/george_frideric_handel.html (788 words)

	George Frederick Handel
		GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL was born at Halle, in Lower Saxony, Feb. 23, 1685, and, like many another composer, revealed his musical promise at a very early age, only to encounter parental opposition.
		Handel himself conducted it thirty-eight times with ever growing popularity, to which the Jews contributed greatly, as it glorified an episode in their national history.
		Handel frequently made transfers of that kind, and this was a permanent one ; for the celebrated chorus is now unalterably identified with the work in which he placed it, and in which also the setting is still more imposing.
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	Handel, Georg Friedrich: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Bach's admiration for Handel is evident from his having copied, with the help of his wife, a passion and other works by Handel.
		Spitta indicates that Bach's admiration for Handel was not reciprocated.
		In one of the curious ironies of music history, both men would be afflicted with cataracts in their old age and undergo surgery at the hand of the same oculist, John Taylor.
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	Georg Frideric Handel
		The previous year Handel, who had been appointed a composer to the Chapel Royal in 1723, had composed four anthems for the coronation of George II and had taken British naturalization.
		Handel was very economical in the re-use of his ideas; at many times in his life he also drew heavily on the music of others (though generally avoiding detection) - such 'borrowings' may be of anything from a brief motif to entire movements, sometimes as they stood but more often accommodated to his own style.
		Handel died in 1759 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, recognized in England and by many in Germany as the greatest composer of his day.
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	about George Friderick Handel's Messiah
		George Frederic was born in 1685, a contemporary of Bach, a fellow German, and raised a fellow Lutheran, yet they were never to meet.
		Handel was the sort of individual who stood out in a crowd Large-boned and loud; he often wore an enormous white wig with curls cascading to his shoulders.
		Handel was known for his modest and strait forward opinion of himself and his talent.
	www.messiahcd.com /Information/about_The_Messiah/about_the_messiah.html (2098 words)

	about George Friderick Handel
		Handel would have married her; but his pride was stung by the coarse declaration of her mother, that she never would consent to the marriage of her daughter with a fiddler; and, indignant at the expression, he declined all further intercourse.
		Handel is said to have detested hearing the tuning of instruments, and therefore, this was always done before he arrived at the theater.
		Handel, accordingly, sat down to the organ, and began to play in such a masterly manner, as instantly to attract the attention of the whole congregation, who, instead of vacating their seats as usual, remained for a considerable space of time, fixed in silent admiration.
	www.messiahcd.com /Information/about_Handel/about_handel.html (4470 words)

	George Frederick Händel biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HANDEL, GEORGE FREDERICK, musician and composer, born in Halle on the Saale, Germany, Feb. 23, 1685; died April 11, 1759.
		When seven years old he received instruction in Halle under Frederick Wilhelm Zachau,and when nine years of age was skilled in playing on the violin, organ, and a number of other instruments.
		Handel had few equals as a musician and composer, his productions showing much grandeur and sublimity, and holding a rank in music equal to the place accorded Schiller and Goethe in literature.
	www.dromo.info /handelbio.htm (334 words)

	Handel
		George Frederick Handel (1685 —1759) was a German born, English composer.
		Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach were the last of the Baroque Masters.
		Handel was born in Halle and attended the University of Halle as a
	www.technotv.net /Music/Handel-3.html (227 words)

	MuseData.org Composer Page: Handel, George Frederick
		Handel composed in a great many genre and the quantity of music he left is enormous.
		He was best known for very large works, his operas and oratorios, but he also composed a great deal of instrumental, vocal, and choral music in shorter forms.
		Neither numbering system deals with another variable in Handel's music--his frequent practice of changing vocal registration (for example from soprano to tenor or vice versa).
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	Handel
		George Frederick Handel was a frequent visitor to the Gopsall Estate and composed the music to his masterpiece "The Messiah" under a temple in the grounds of the estate.
		As well as his literary aspirations, Charles was well known for his affluent life-style and commuted in first class comfort on the "Flying Shuttle" stagecoach between his grandfather's 1,000 acre estate and a town house in Great Ormond Street, London.
		It was during this time that Charles and Handel became close friends and regular visitors to the Gopsall Estate.
	www.hinckley-online.co.uk /handel.shtml (265 words)

	INKPOT#21 CLASSICAL MUSIC FEATURES: HANDEL Water Music and Musick for the Royal Fireworks. Gardiner (Philips); Savall ...
		Handel was asked to provide it, and "His Majesty's approval of it was so great that he caused it to be played three times in all." George (the King, not the composer) later attended a supper at a riverside villa at 1 am.
		Handel (left) was in essence a very public figure, whose music is likewise for the public.
		When Handel combines words with his music, the Italian dramatism of his operas, the Germanic power of his Hanoverian roots join with that cosmopolitan spirit of the English to create music that is honest without being superficial, simple yet filled with enormous grandeur.
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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of George Frideric Handel
		For the next 35 years Handel was immersed in the ups and downs of operatic activity in London where the It.
		From 1717 to 1720 Handel was resident comp.
		Handel travelled abroad to engage singers and in the 8 years until the acad.
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	Free Essays on Handel
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	George Frederick Handel Biography / Biography of George Frederick Handel Biography
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		The dramatic English oratorios of the German-born English composer and organist George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) climaxed the entire baroque oratorio tradition.
		George Frederick Handel (German, Georg Friedrich Händel) was born on Feb. 23, 1685, to Georg and Dorothea Händel in Halle.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-george-frederick-handel/index.html (241 words)

	Music - George Frederick Handel
		Shortly afterwards, obtaining leave of absence, Handel came twice to England, where he performed the opera Rinaldo and became too popular and prosperous to wish to return to his Kapellmeister duties.
		Competition led to excessive expenditure upon high-priced vocalists, and at fifty-two Handel was declared bankrupt.
		This is the merest summary of a life that was full of incident, and that deserves study, especially since its details throw much light upon musical-social conditions in England in the first half of the eighteenth century.
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	George Frederic Handel Hotel, Dublin
		THE GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL HOTEL is enviably located on one of Dublin's oldest streets next to Christchurch Cathedral, on the edge of Dublin's vibrant Temple Bar area.
		The hotel has a modern theme, yet is steeped in musical history as Handel's famous 'Messiah' was first performed on the site of the hotel in April 1742.
		Featuring a lively bar and restaurant, the George Frederic Handel Hotel offers a warm welcome combined with modern comforts to today's traveller.
	www.handelshotel.com (77 words)

	Alibris: George Frederick Handel
		An illustrated edition of the libretto for Handel's popular choral work.
		Based on Handel's autograph and conducting scores, Van Camp corrected...
		Titles include: And the Glory Of The Lord * O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings * Worthy Is The Lamb * and of course Hallelujah.
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