George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas ... Serse (Xerxes), and other works often based on classical stories. In the 1730s and 1740s Handel ...

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly ...

George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in 1749) produced works, including Messiah that dazzled even the musical titans who would succeed him. AGE Fotostock George Frideric Handel's Messiah was ...

After the king’s death in 1727, Handel was commissioned to compose Zadok the Priest for the coronation of George II. The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s ...

The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: ...

Handel wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II in 1727 ... Handel couldn't find work so he travelled to Italy and met a very famous composer there called Corelli.

In 1707 George Frideric ... work about past and present is formed as the conflict between extravagance and sanctity. Humanizing our obsession with beauty and obligation for council, Handel ...

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine ...

On April 13, 1742, during the Christian season of Lent, George Frideric ... frequently performed choral works in Western music. While nowadays, the performance of Handel's "Messiah" oratorio ...

Three days before his death in 1759 Handel signed ... most Gracious Majesty GEORGE the III on the XXVI, and XXIX of May and on the III and V of June MDCCLXXXIV. The musick performed on this solemnity ...