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.

* Handel composed an oratorio entitled Solomon in 1748.

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.

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.

At the time, before the pre-eminence of Mozart or Beethoven, and with Johann Sebastian Bach known primarily to connoisseurs of keyboard music, Haydn reached a place in music that set him above all other composers except perhaps George Frideric Handel.

Lully set words by the Duchess of Brinon to music, and de Créquy claims the tune was later plagiarised by Handel.

Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music.

Within fifteen years, Handel, a dramatic genius, started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera, but the public came to hear the vocal bravura of the soloists rather than the music.

During his time at Leipzig, he was continually influenced by the music of Handel, whom he met earlier, in 1701.

Boston's Handel and Haydn Society aimed at raising the level of church music in America, publishing their " Collection of Church Music ".

He studied the music of pre-classical composers, including Giovanni Gabrieli, Johann Adolph Hasse, Heinrich Schütz, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, and, especially, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Although Wagner became fiercely critical of Brahms as the latter grew in stature and popularity, he was enthusiastically receptive of the early Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel ; Brahms himself, according to many sources ( Swafford, 1999 ), deeply admired Wagner's music, confining his ambivalence only to the dramaturgical precepts of Wagner's theory.

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.

Haydn became more interested in choral music near the end of his life following his visits to England in the 1790s, when he heard various Handel oratorios performed by large forces ; he wrote a series of masses beginning in 1797 and his two great oratorios The Creation and The Seasons.

* Latin church music by George Frideric Handel ( including three antiphons )

A more long-term benefit was exposure to the music of Handel – whom he later credited as a great influence on his style – and the naturalistic acting style of David Garrick.

The training music: Handel sonata no 12 op 1, in F major, HWV 370 allegro 2.

The Choir has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall ( in New York City ) on numerous occasions, performing and premiering works such as John Corigliano ’ s “ Poem On His Birthday ,” “ Too Hot to Handel ” arranged by Broadway composers Bob Christianson and Gary Anderson and Hannibal Lokumbe ’ s “ African Portraits ,” led by music director Leonard Slatkin, as part of the Kennedy Center ’ s African Festival.

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.

Tippett assimilated many influences, from 16th century church music and madrigals, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Hindemith and Bartók to folk music, blues, jazz-rock and Balinese gamelan music, eventually finding his own highly personal and expressive style.

He was certainly devoted to Handel's music, having helped to finance the publication of every Handel score since Rodelinda in 1725.

This inscription, taken with the speed of composition, has encouraged belief in the apocryphal story that Handel wrote the music in a fervour of divine inspiration in which, as he wrote the " Hallelujah " chorus, " he saw all heaven before him ".

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.