George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Music and classical lovers may have encountered the Messiah's ...

Handel’s Messiah, an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, has become one of the best known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.

In 1707 George Frideric Handel, a 22-year-old radical composer working in Rome, startled the Vatican and the public with “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” (The Triumph of Time and ...

which you can subscribe to and receive a daily poem, notes that i in 1888 that a snippet of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, "Israel in Egypt," was recorded on a wax cylinder. It is supposedly ...

Handel's professional life begins with an old joke: George Frideric Handel was a Saxon who moved to England to produce hot-blooded Italian Opera, went broke and rebounded with pious religious oratorio ...

George Frideric Handel and Seattle's Jimi Hendrix shared an address, living 200 years apart in adjoining 18th-century London houses. Now, 40 years after Hendrix's death, a new exhibition about his ...

George Frideric Handel’s father was a barber and valet to the Prince of Saxe-Magdeburg. He was in his mid-sixties when his son was born and he hated music. Somehow young Handel managed to learn the ...

THE early spring of 1685, two centuries ago, brought into the world two unsurpassed musicians. Bountiful indeed was the good genius of humanity in giving birth that year to both a Handel and a ...

We are talking about “Acis, Galatea, and Polyphemus,” which was written by George Frideric Handel in 1708 and “The Rose Elf” by David Hertzberg, completed in 2018.

George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah is probably the most famous piece of classical music in the world, and a particular favorite at Christmas. But how well do you know it?