Most music lovers have encountered George Frederick Handel through holiday- renditions of the Messiah's "Hallelujah" chorus. And many of them know and love that oratorio on Christ's life, death, and resurrection, as well as a few other greatest hits like the orchestral Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music, and perhaps Judas Maccabeus or one of the other English oratorios. Yet his operas, for which he was widely known in his own , are the province mainly of specialists in Baroque music, and the events of his life, even though they reflected some of the most important musical issues of the day, have never become as familiar as the careers of Bach or Mozart. Perhaps the single word that best describes his life and music is "cosmopolitan": he was a German composer, trained in Italy, who spent most of his life in England. Handel was born in the German city of Halle on February 23, 1685. His father noted but did not nurture his musical talent, and he had to sneak a small keyboard instrument into his attic to practice. As a child he studied music with Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, organist at the Liebfrauenkirche, and for a he seemed destined for a career as a church organist himself. After studying law briefly at the University of Halle, Handel began serving as organist on March 13, 1702, at the Domkirche there. Dissatisfied, he took a post as violinist in the Hamburg opera orchestra in 1703, and his frustration with musically provincial northern Germany was perhaps shown when he fought a duel the following year with the composer Matheson over the accompant to one of Matheson's operas. In 1706 Handel took off for Italy, then the font of operatic innovation, and mastered contemporary trends in Italian serious opera. He returned to Germany to become court composer in Hannover, whose rulers were linked by family ties with the British throne; his patron there, the Elector of Hannover, became King George I of England. English audiences took to his 1711 opera Rinaldo, and several years later Handel jumped at the chance to move to England permanently. He impressed King George early on with the Water Music of 1716, written as entertainment for a royal boat outing. Through the 1720s Handel composed Italian operatic masterpieces for London stages: Ottone, Serse (Xerxes), and other works often based on classical stories. His popularity was dented, though, by new English-language works of a less formal character, and in the 1730s and 1740s Handel turned to the oratorio, a grand form that attracted England's new middle-class audiences. Not only Messiah but also Israel in Egypt, Samson, Saul, and many other works established him as a venerated elder of English music. The oratorios displayed to maximum effect Handel's melodic gift and the sense of timing he brought to big choral numbers. Among the most popular of all the oratorios was Judas Maccabeus, composed in 32 days in 1746. Handel presented the oratorio six s during its first season and about 40 s before his death 12 years later, conducting it 30 s himself. In 1737, Handel suffered a stroke, which caused both temporary paralysis in his right arm and some loss of his mental faculties, but he recovered sufficiently to carry on most normal activity. He was urged to write an autobiography, but never did. Blind in old age, he continued to compose. He died in London on April 14, 1759. Beethoven thought Handel the greatest of all his predecessors; he once said, "I would bare my head and kneel at his grave."
01 Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. I: 1. Sinfony
02 Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. I: No. 13. Pastoral Symphony
03 Bela Banfalvi - Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: No. 42, Sinfonia. The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
04 Bela Banfalvi - Serse, HWV 40, Act I: Largo. "Ombra mai fu" (arr. for String Orchestra)
05 Slovak Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: I. Overture
06 Slovak Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: II. Bouree
07 Slovak Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: III. La paix
08 Slovak Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: IV. La rejouissance
09 Slovak Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: V. Menuet I
10 Slovak Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: VI. Menuet II
11 Bamberger Symphoniker - Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Overture
12 Capella Istropolitana - Organ Concerto, D Minor, HWV 306, Op. 7/4: I. Adagio
13 Capella Istropolitana - Organ Concerto, D Minor, HWV 306, Op. 7/4: II. Allegro
14 Capella Istropolitana - Organ Concerto, D Minor, HWV 306, Op. 7/4: III. Organo ad libitum
15 Capella Istropolitana - Organ Concerto, D Minor, HWV 306, Op. 7/4: IV. Allegro
16 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: I. Overture
17 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: II. Adagio e staccato
18 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: III. Allegro - Andante - Allegro
19 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: IV. A tempo di minuetto
20 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: V. Air
21 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: VI. Menuet
22 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: VII. Bourree
23 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: VIII. Hornpipe
24 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 1, HWV 348: IX. Allegro moderato
25 Paris Chamber Orchestra - Harp Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6: I. Andante - Allegro
26 Paris Chamber Orchestra - Harp Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6: II. Larghetto
27 Paris Chamber Orchestra - Harp Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6: III. Allegro moderato
28 Stuttgart Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B-Flat Major, Op. 3, No. 1: I. Allegro
29 Stuttgart Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B-Flat Major, Op. 3, No. 1: II. Largo
30 Stuttgart Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B-Flat Major, Op. 3, No. 1: III. Allegro
31 Bela Banfalvi - Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: I. Overture. Menuet
32 Orchestra Munster - La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Act I: Overture (Sonata in D Major)
33 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 2, HWV 349: I. Andante
34 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 2, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe
35 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 2, HWV 349: III. Coro
36 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 2, HWV 349: IV. Loure
37 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 2, HWV 349: V. Bourree
38 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1: I. A tempo giusto
39 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1: II. Allegro e forte
40 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1: III. Adagio
41 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1: IV. Allegro
42 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1: V. Allegro
43 Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn - Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295: I. Larghetto
44 Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn - Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295: II. Allegro
45 Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn - Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295: III. Larghetto
46 Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn - Organ Concerto in F Major, HWV 295: IV. Allegro
47 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 3, HWV 350: I. Menuet
48 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 3, HWV 350: II. Rigaudon
49 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 3, HWV 350: III. Menuet
50 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 3, HWV 350: IV. Menuet
51 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 3, HWV 350: V. Affettuoso
52 Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra - Water Music, Suite No. 3, HWV 350: VI. Cantabile
53 Capella Leopoldina - Hercules, HWV 60: Overture
54 Capella Leopoldina - Jephta, HWV 70: Overture
55 Bamberger Symphoniker - Il Pastor fido, HWV 8: Overture
56 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12: I. Largo
57 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12: II. Allegro
58 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12: III. Aria. Larghetto e piano
59 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12: IV. Largo
60 Bratislava Chamber Orchestra - Concerto grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12: V. Allegro



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