Georg Friedrich Haendel (contributor)
A cosmopolitan composer in 18th-century Europe, Georg Friedrich Handel was born
in Germany and settled in England, where he found fame with his operas and
oratorios in Italian. Author of the famous "Hallelujah " chorus from both
Messiah and Water Music, the Saxon was born in Halle, in the Holy Roman Empire,
on February 23, 1685. A contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi,
Georg Philipp Telemann and Jean-Philippe Rameau, the young Handel (Händel in
Germany, Handel in England) secretly played the clavichord in the attic while
his father, a physician in the service of ...
