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HANDEL.
BY
Víctor Luri and Miguel Ángel Maeztu.
-EARLY YEARS.
-WHO WAS HAENDEL?
-LATER YEARS.
-WORKS.
-FAMILY.
-George Friedrich Handel was a German-English Baroque composer, who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi .
-He was born in Germany the 23 of February of 1685(the same year that Bach was born), trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England.
-He was born in Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg, he settled in England in 1712, becoming a naturalised subject of the British crown on 20 February 1727.
City of Halle.
-He died the 14 of April of 1759.
-His father was Georg Haendel(1622-1697), he was a barber.
-His father had married in the second nuptials Dorothea Taust(1651-1730), twenty-eight years younger than his father.
-He had two sisters and some step-brothers
- Handel when he was young.
-At an early age Handel became skillful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ.
-One day Handel attracted with his playing the attention of Johann Adolf, his father´s employer.
-Through the Duke’s persuasion, the young Handel was permitted to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of the Lutheran Marienkirche.
-The house in Halle where Handel was born.-Harpsichord.
-In 1710 he moved to London.
-With his magic opera Rinaldo, based on La Gerusalemme Liberata Handel enjoyed great success.
-Following his recovery Handel focused on composing oratorios instead of opera.
-In 1751 his eyesight started to fail in one eye.
The house of Handel in London.
-Handel’s compositions include 42 operas, 29 oratorios , more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, numerous arias, chamber music, a large number of ecumenical pieces, odes and serenatas, and 16 organ concerti.
-His most famous work, the oratorio Messiah with its Hallelujah chorus, is among the most popular works in choral music and has become a centerpiece o the Christmas season.
-Handel’s works have been catalogued in the Handel-Werke-Verzeichnis and commonly referred to by a HWV number.