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George Frideric Handel

German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)

"Handel" redirects here. For other uses, see Handel (disambiguation).

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (HAN-dəl;^[a] baptised Georg Fried[e]rich Händel,^[b]German:[ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪçˈhɛndl̩]^ⓘ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759)^[c] was a German-BritishBaroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727.^[5] He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized

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George Frideric Handel

George Handel

Born	George Frideric Handel (1685-02-23)February 23, 1685 Halle (Saale), Germany
Died	April 14, 1759(1759-04-14) (aged 74) London, United Kingdom
Burial place	Westminster Abbey
Nationality	English
Occupation	Composer
Notable work	Messiah

George Frideric Handel (German: Georg Friedrich Händel) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was an 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. Handel changed his name to George Frideric Handel when he became British; he removed the dots above the "a" and changed the spelling of Georg and Friedrich. The German spelling of his name (Georg Friedrich Händel) is still used by German writers.

Although they both lived in the late Baroque period, Bach and Handel’s music developed differently. Handel wrote many operas and oratorios and by them became very famous. H

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Georg Friederich H�ndel was born in 1685, a vintage year indeed for baroque composers, in Halle on the Saale river in Thuringia, Germany on February 23rd.

From Germany to England � via Italy.

Though his father had intended him for the law, Handel's own musical inclinations seem always to have been clear to him. At the age of 18, in 1703, he traveled to Hamburg, where he took a job as a violinist at the Hamburg Opera and gave private lessons to support himself. He became acquainted with Johann Mattheson (who later chronicled the known events of Handel's life during his stay there) and together they visited Buxtehude in L�beck in that first year. In the new year Handel's first two operas were produced, Almira and Nero.

Whilst in Hamburg, Handel made the acquaintance of Prince Ferdinando de' Medici, son and heir of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who invited Handel to visit Italy where he spent more than three years, in Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice. By 1706 he had reached Rome, where Marquis (later Prince) Francesco Ruspoli employed him as a household musician and wher