Handel
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1. Handel - Noun
2. Handel - Proper noun
Meaning
a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
the music of Handel
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Raphael paints wisdom Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.
Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.
Handel paralysed music in England for generations and they have not yet quite got over him.
Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel.
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.