George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer ... He impressed King George early on with the Water Music of 1716, written as entertainment for a royal boat outing. Through ...

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

George Frideric Handel (at age 64 in ... local products," notes Christopher Hogwood, a Handel biographer and founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, the London period-instrument orchestra he ...

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio ... it was certainly helped by the fact that in some parts of Messiah, Handel recycled his own music. The well-known chorus, “For unto Us ...

The composer George Frideric ... premiere of Handel's great oratorio 'Messiah', for which Jennens had supplied the libretto. Jennens had been unhappy with some of the music Handel had written ...