It is a period where some composers still working in the Baroque style flourish, though sometimes thought of as being more of the past than the present — Bach, Handel, and Telemann all composed well beyond the point at which the homophonic style is clearly in the ascendant.

George Frideric Handel used the tune as the theme in the variation piece ' Sarabande ' of his Suite No. 4 in E minor, HWV 429, composed prior to 1720.

Handel composed more than forty operas in over thirty years, and since the late 1960s, with the revival of baroque music and original instrumentation, interest in Handel's operas has grown.

Zachow composed music for the Lutheran services at the church, and from him Handel learned about harmony and counterpoint, copying and analysing scores.

* Baroque composer Georg Frideric Handel composed an oratorio " Joshua " in 1747.

The Water Music composed by George Frideric Handel premiered on 17 July 1717, when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames.

Music for the Royal Fireworks was composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749 to celebrate the peace Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which had been declared the previous year.

The Orlando narrative inspired several composers, amongst whom were Claudio Monteverdi, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Antonio Vivaldi and George Frideric Handel, who composed an Italian-language opera with Orlando.

In memory of this victory, Handel composed his Dettingen Te Deum and Dettingen Anthem.

Messiah ( HWV 56 ) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer ( which are worded slightly differently from their King James counterparts ).

In the following year these were joined by the male alto Gaetano Guadagni, for whom Handel composed new versions of " But who may abide " and " Thou art gone up on high ".

Towards the end of the Baroque era, George Frideric Handel composed the first organ concertos.

** Dettingen Te Deum, a canticle composed by George Frideric Handel.

Beginning in late 1979, Carmine Coppola composed a score incorporating themes taken from various sources such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Bedřich Smetana, Erich Mendelsohn and George Frideric Handel.

Popular examples include the Air from the 3rd Orchestral Suite, BWV 1068 ( of which Air on the G String is an arrangement for violin and piano made in the 19th century by August Wilhelmj ) and the Goldberg Aria with variations, BWV 988, a baroque clavier work, both composed by and the Air from Water Music, in the Suite in F Major, HWV 348, by George Frideric Handel.

According to Randel, a number of Baroque composers ( he lists Hasse, Handel, Porpora, Leo, and Vinci ) composed more than a thousand da capo arias during their careers.

In 1746, the composer George Frideric Handel composed his oratorio Judas Maccabeus putting the biblical story in the context of the Jacobite Rising.

The first act was composed between 26 December 1737 and 9 January 1738, the second was ready by 25 January, the third by 6 February, and Handel put the finishing touches to the score on 14 February.

This is not a universal picture: Handel in London composed not for the court but for a much more socially diverse audience, and in the Venetian republic composers modified their operas to suit the public taste and not that of the court.

" Hence, Deutsch composed " documentary biographies " of Schubert, Mozart and Handel ; in them, the texts of the old documents are placed in chronological order, strung together with narration and commentary by Deutsch.

Rinaldo ( HWV 7 ) is an opera by George Frideric Handel composed in 1711.

Handel composed the music for Rinaldo quickly.

Much of it is borrowings and adaptations from operas and other works that Handel had composed during his long stay in Italy during 1706 – 10.

Over the next three years Handel composed three more operas in the German style, but all of these are now lost.

* In 1718, Handel wrote the oratorio Esther based on Racine's play.

Schmidt's oratorio stands in the Austro-German tradition stretching back to the time of J. S. Bach and Handel.

* Joseph and his Brethren, oratorio by George Frideric Handel

This placed a premium on being able to rewrite music for whichever singers or musicians were best suited for a performance — Handel produced different versions of the Messiah oratorio almost every year.

* 1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah

* 1742: Messiah, oratorio by Handel premiered in Dublin

Handel performed here, including the first performance of his third oratorio Athalia in 1733.

In the middle of the 19th century, a revival of interest in choral music swept France, and Saint-Saëns, an admirer of the oratorios of Handel and Mendelssohn, made plans to compose an oratorio on the subject of Samson and Delilah as suggested by Voltaire's libretto Samson for Rameau.

The quartet was followed by the First Piano Sonata, the Concerto for Double String Orchestra, the Fantasia on a Theme of Handel and the oratorio A Child of Our Time.

In 1735 Handel received the text for a new oratorio named Saul from its librettist Charles Jennens, a wealthy landowner with musical and literary interests.

The effort of writing so much music in so short a time was not unusual for Handel and his contemporaries ; Handel commenced his next oratorio, Samson, within a week of finishing Messiah, and completed his draft of this new work in a month.

A famous musical reflection on the Passion is Part II of Messiah, an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, though the text here draws from Old Testament prophecies rather than from the Gospels themselves.

* Jephtha, an oratorio on the story by Handel.

* Joseph and his Brethren, 1743, an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.

The musical service, which was originally sung by the blind children only, was made fashionable by the generosity of George Frideric Handel, who frequently had Messiah performed there, and who bequeathed to the hospital a fair copy ( full score ) of his greatest oratorio.

" Cibber was particularly admired by Handel, who wrote numerous parts especially for her including the contralto arias in his 1741 oratorio Messiah, the role of Micah in Samson, the role of Lichas in Hercules and the role of David in Saul among others.

She met Handel while rehearsing and performing the role of Jael in the original production of his oratorio Deborah.

She was also engaged by Handel for his oratorio season, creating the role of Micah in Samson.

* Charles Jennens-Belshazzar ( oratorio by Handel )

Haydn was inspired to write a large oratorio during his visits to England in 1791 – 1792 and 1794 – 1795, when he heard oratorios of Handel performed by large forces.

Handel wrote a 1746 oratorio on the subject.