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

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

As Alexander's Feast ( 1736 ) was well received, Handel made a transition to English choral works.

Handel was only partly successful with his performances of English Oratorio on mythical and biblical themes, but when he arranged a performance of Messiah to benefit the Foundling Hospital ( 1750 ) the critique ended.

Handel was born in 1685 in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, to Georg Händel and Dorothea Taust.

Handel and his father travelled to Weissenfels to visit either Handel's half-brother, Carl, or nephew, Georg Christian, who was serving as valet to Duke Johann Adolf I. Handel and the duke convinced his father to allow him to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of Halle's Marienkirche.

Telemann was one of the most prolific composers in history ( at least in terms of surviving oeuvre ) and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time — he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally.

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

He also took up gardening and cultivating rare plants, a popular Hamburg hobby which was shared by Handel.

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.

Besides Arne, the other dominating force in English opera at this time was George Frideric Handel, whose opera serias filled the London operatic stages for decades, and influenced most home-grown composers, like John Frederick Lampe, who wrote using Italian models.

Before that, the vocal virtuosity, not range, was the priority, with soprano parts rarely extending above a high A ( Handel, for example, only wrote one role extending to a high C ), though the castrato Farinelli was alleged to possess a top D ( his lower range was also extraordinary, extending to tenor C ).

In the 18th century, a number of Italian sopranos gained international renown and often engaged in fierce rivalry, as was the case with Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni, who started a fist fight with one another during a performance of a Handel opera.

In 1815, Boston's Handel and Haydn Society was founded, in 1842 the New York Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic were formed, and in 1858, the Hallé Orchestra was formed in Manchester.

The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, Sergeant Trumpeter and Lutenist to the court, who had parts specifically written for him by both George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell.

Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, in 1685, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.

Scarlatti was already an eminent harpsichordist: there is a story of a trial of skill with George Frideric Handel at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome where he was judged possibly superior to Handel on that instrument, although inferior on the organ.

George Frideric Handel, born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; pronounced ) ( born in Germany, 1685 ), became a prominent German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Baroque composer Georg Friedrich Händel ( later George Frideric Handel ) was born in Halle in 1685 and spent the first 17 years of his life in the city.

Daniels was born at 51 North Street in South Bank, Redcar & Cleveland, the son of Handel Newton Daniels and Nancy Lloyd.

Renée Fleming ( born February 14, 1959 ) is an American soprano whose repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock.

* April 14 – George Frideric Handel, composer ( born 1685 )

Watts was born in Marylebone, London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel ( after whom he was named ), to the second wife of a poor piano-maker.

Lang was born in Handel, Saskatchewan.

William Wolf Handel ( born August 25, 1951 ) is the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting and an AM radio personality in Los Angeles, California.

Handel was born in Brazil, to Leo and Nechama Handel.

The Handel House Museum is a museum in Mayfair, London dedicated to the life and works of the German born baroque composer George Frideric Handel, who made his home in London in 1712 and eventually became a British citizen in 1727.

George Frederick Root was born at Sheffield, Massachusetts, and was named after the German-born British composer George Frideric Handel.

Yvonne Kenny AM ( born 25 November 1950 ) is an Australian soprano, particularly associated with Handel and Mozart roles.

* Donald Burrows ( musicologist ) ( born 1945 ), Handel scholar and professor of music at the Open University

* 1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer ( b. 1685 )

* 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German / British Baroque composer ( d. 1759 )

* April 14 – George Frideric Handel, German composer ( b. 1685 )

* George Frideric Handel ( 1685 – 1759 ) served as Kapellmeister from 1710 to 1712 for George, Elector of Hanover.

This central room, which provides access to the Gallery, Green and Red Velvet Rooms, would originally have been used for poetry readings, theatrical performances, gambling and small musical recitals ( for example the composer George Frideric Handel ( 1685 – 1759 ) may have performed in this room.

Part of the traditional content of British coronations, the texts for all four anthems were picked by Handel — a personal selection from the most accessible account of an earlier coronation — that of James II in 1685.

George Frideric Handel ( 1685 – 1759 ), who performed in the Holywell Music Room.

Operas and oratorios highly conducive to this method of singing were composed by George Frideric Handel ( 1685 – 1759 ) and his contemporaries during the Baroque period.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

Handel lived with the family at Burlington House for two years when he arrived in England in 1712 ).

In 1732 Handel brought a revised and expanded version of Esther to the King's Theatre, Haymarket, where members of the royal family attended a glittering premiere on 6 May.

By 1741, after their collaboration on Saul, a warm friendship had developed between the two, and Handel was a frequent visitor to the Jennens family estate at Gopsall.

Much of the Handel family lost their lives in the Holocaust.

The Handel family emigrated to the U. S. when Bill was six and he was sworn in as a U. S. citizen at the age of eleven.

Österreichische Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe ( approximately translated as: Imperial royal privileged Austrian Credit-Institute for Commerce and Industry ) by the Rothschild family.