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  HANDEL - LoveToKnow Article on HANDEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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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 MSN Encarta - Handel
Handel and his German contemporary Johann Sebastian Bach are considered the greatest composers of the early 18th century.
Handel began to concentrate on oratorios in English in 1732, following a successful revival of Esther in London that year, and by the 1740s he composed an average of two a year.
Handel also created the well-known Music for the Royal Fireworks in 1749 to celebrate the end of the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748).
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554811/Handel.html   (1265 words)

  
 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.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/handel.html   (1029 words)

  
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M2000/.H22/S3 Folio 19 Handel, Georg Friedrich Sosarme London?, 1786 M782/H135s Folio 21 Handel, Georg Friedrich, 1685-1759 Il Radamisto London, Published by the author, 1720 M782.55/H135r F Folio 23 Handel, Georg Friedrich, 1685-1759 Theodora n.p., n.d.
M783.3/H135t Folio 21 Handel, Georg Friedrich, 1685-1759 The beauties of Handel, v.3 London, Printed and sold by the author, by Preston, ca.
The Boston Handel and Haydn Society collection of church music Boston, Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1831 M2117/.M4/B7/1831 Octavo 3 Mason, Lowell, 1792-1872, comp.
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Bryn Terfel - Handel Arias / Scottish CO, Mackerras
~ by George Frideric Handel, Charles Mackerras, Bryn Terfel (Audio CD)
~ by David Daniels, George Frideric Handel, Roger Norrington (Audio CD)
nynorsk.encyclopedia.st /17._mai   (318 words)

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