George Frideric Handel - Wikipedia. George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; [a] born Georg Friedrich Händel[b]German: [ˈhɛndəl] ( listen); 2. February 1. 68. 5 (O. S.) [(N. S.) 5 March] – 1. April 1. 75. 9)[c] was a German, later British, baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

Handel received important training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1. British subject in 1. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and by the middle- German polyphonic choral tradition.

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Within fifteen years, Handel had started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera. Musicologist Winton Dean writes that his operas show that "Handel was not only a great composer; he was a dramatic genius of the first order." As Alexander's Feast (1. Handel made a transition to English choral works. After his success with Messiah (1. Italian opera again. Almost blind, and having lived in England for nearly fifty years, he died in 1.

His funeral was given full state honours, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey in London. Born the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, Handel is regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era, with works such as Water Music, Music for the Royal Fireworks and Messiah remaining steadfastly popular. One of his four Coronation Anthems, Zadok the Priest (1. George II, has been performed at every subsequent British coronation, traditionally during the sovereign's anointing. Another of his English oratorios, Solomon (1.

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The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", featuring at the 2. London Olympics opening ceremony. Handel composed more than forty operas in over thirty years, and since the late 1. Handel's operas has grown.

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Halle: Handel's early years[edit]. Handel's baptismal registration (Marienbibliothek in Halle)Handel was born in 1. Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, to Georg Händel and Dorothea Taust.[7] His father, 6.

George Frideric was born, was an eminent barber- surgeon who served the court of Saxe- Weissenfels and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. Georg Händel (1. 62. Valentin Händel who had emigrated from Eisleben in 1. Anna Belching, the daughter of a master coppersmith.

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They were Protestants and chose reliably Protestant Saxony over Silesia, a Hapsburg possession, as religious tensions mounted in the years before the Thirty Years War. Halle was a relatively prosperous city, home of a salt- mining industry and center of trade (and member of the Hanseatic League).[1. The Margrave of Brandenburg became the administrator of the archiepiscopal territories of Mainz (including Magdeburg when they converted, and by the early 1. Halle, which attracted renowned musicians.[d] Even the smaller churches all had "able organists and fair choirs",[e] and humanities and the letters thrived (Shakespeare was performed in the theaters early in the 1. The Thirty Years War brought extensive destruction to Halle, and by the 1.

However, since the middle of the war the city had been under the administration of the Duke of Saxony, and soon after the end of the war he would bring musicians trained in Dresden to his court in Weissenfels. The arts and music, however, flourished only among the higher strata (not only in Halle but throughout Germany), of which Handel's family was not a member. Georg Händel was born at the beginning of the war, and was apprenticed to a barber in Halle at the age of 1.

When he was 2. 0, he married the widow of the official barber- surgeon of a suburb of Halle, inheriting his practice. With this, Georg determinedly began the process of becoming self- made; by dint of his "conservative, steady, thrifty, unadventurous" lifestyle, he guided the five children he had with Anna who reached adulthood into the medical profession (except his youngest daughter, who married a government official). Anna died in 1. 68. Watch In Her Defense HDQ.

Within a year Georg married again, this time to the daughter of a Lutheran minister, Pastor Georg Taust of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Giebichtenstein,[1. Lutheran pastors. Handel was the second child of this marriage; the first son was stillborn. Watch The Broken Tower Online Hitfix here. Two younger sisters were born after the birth of George Frideric: Dorthea Sophia, born 6 October 1.

Johanna Christiana, born 1. January 1. 69. 0.[2.

Handel's early education[edit]. Halle. Copper engraving, 1.

Early in his life Handel is reported to have attended the gymnasium in Halle, where the headmaster, Johann Praetorius (de), was reputed to be an ardent musician.[2. Whether Handel remained there or for how long is unknown, but many biographers suggest that he was withdrawn from school by his father, based on the characterization of him by Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring. Mainwaring is the source for almost all information (little as it is) of Handel's childhood, and much of that information came from J. C. Smith, Jr., Handel's confidant and copyist.[2. Whether they came from Smith or elsewhere, Mainwaring frequently relates misinformation.[g] It is from Mainwaring that the portrait comes of Handel's father as implacably opposed to any musical education. Mainwaring writes that Georg Händel was "alarmed" at Handel's very early propensity for music,[h] "took every measure to oppose it", including forbidding any musical instrument in the house and preventing Handel from going to any house where they might be found.[2. This did nothing to dampen young Handel's inclination; in fact, it did the reverse.

Mainwaring tells the story of Handel's secret attic spinet: Handel "found means to get a little clavichord privately convey'd to a room at the top of the house. To this room he constantly stole when the family was asleep".[2. Although both John Hawkins and Charles Burney credited this tale, Schoelcher found it nearly "incredible" and a feat of "poetic imagination" and Lang considers it one of the unproven "romantic stories" that surrounded Handel's childhood. But Handel had to have had some experience with the keyboard to have made the impression in Weissenfels that resulted in his receiving formal musical training. Musical education[edit]Sometime between the ages of seven and nine, Handel accompanied his father to Weissenfels where he came under the notice of one whom Handel thereafter always regarded throughout life as his benefactor,Duke Johann Adolf I.[i] Somehow Handel made his way to the court organ, where he surprised everyone with his playing.[3.

Overhearing this performance and noting the youth of the performer caused the Duke (whose suggestions were not to be disregarded by a burgher, especially an ambitious court appointee) to recommend to Georg Händel that Handel be given musical instruction.[3. Handel's father engaged the organist at the Halle parish church, the young Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, to instruct Handel. Zachow would be the only teacher that Handel ever had. Because of his church employment, Zachow was an organist "of the old school", reveling in fugues, canons and counterpoint. But he was also familiar with developments in music across Europe and his own compositions "embraced the new concerted, dramatic style".[j] When Zachow discovered the talent of Handel, he introduced him "to a vast collection of German and Italian music, which he possessed, sacred and profane, vocal and instrumental compositions of different schools, different styles, and of every master".

Many traits considered "Handelian" can be traced back to Zachow's music.[3. At the same time Handel continued practice on the harpsichord, learned violin and organ, but according to Burney his special affection was for the hautbois (oboe).[3. Schoelcher speculates that his youthful devotion to the instrument explains the large number of pieces he composed for oboe. Marktkirche in Halle where Zachow and Handel performed as organists.

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