George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel ...

George Frideric Handel worked as music director for James Brydges, an enthusiastic music lover who played flute and used his wealth to sponsor his own 24 member orchestra. As the house composer, ...

A term originally employed in the context of the visual arts to describe extravagance or irregularity, the word Baroque has ... Biblical stories in music: George Frideric Handel introduced it ...

It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near ...

Handel wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II in 1727 ... If you're a football fan you might recognise this music as a version of it is used as the theme of the UEFA Champions ...

The composer George Frideric ... premiere of Handel's great oratorio 'Messiah', for which Jennens had supplied the libretto. Jennens had been unhappy with some of the music Handel had written ...

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio ... it was certainly helped by the fact that in some parts of Messiah, Handel recycled his own music. The well-known chorus, “For unto Us ...