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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel - Hallelujah-Messiah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
George Frideric Handel
(German:
Georg Friedrich Händel
;
pronounced
[ˈhɛndəl]
) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a
German
-born
British
Baroque
composer, famous for his
operas
,
oratorios
,
anthems
and organ
concertos
. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music. He received critical musical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London (1712) and becoming a naturalised British subject in 1727.
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By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the
Italian Baroque
and the middle-German
polyphonic
choral tradition.
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