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COMPOSER-GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

GROWING UP GEORGE HANDEL WAS UNDER A CLOSE WATCH FROM HIS PARENTS, HIS MOTHER INCRIGED HIS MUSIC, HIS FATHER HATED IT AND WANTED HIM TO STUDY LAW. BUT ON A VISIT TO A ROYAL COURT A DUKE WAS IMPRESSED BY YOUNG HANDELS' MUSIC HE OFFERED TO PAY FOR HIS MUSICAL STUDIEDS. THAT PERSUADED HANDELS FATHER.

IN ENGLAND HANDEL WAS CALLED THE GREAT BEAR. IN ITALY WHERE HE COMPOSED OPERAS, HE WROTE 40 IN ALL. WHEN THE AUDIENCE GREW TIRED OF THESE PERFOMANCES HE SET OFF TO ENGLAND TO COMPOSE ORATORIOS AND BIBLICAL STORIES IN 1741 HANDEL'S FREINDS WROTE THE WORDS TO THE MESSIAH. HANDEL COMPOSED THE LONG WORK OF MUSICAL ART IN ONLY 3 WEEKS AND HARDLY CHANGED ANY LINES.

AT THE TOP OF HIS CAREER HE BECAME BLIND BUT CONTINUED TO CONDUCT BUT NOT COMPOSE.

WHEN HE DIED IN 1759 3,000 PEOPLE ATTENDED HIS FUNERAL.

BORN February 23, 1685 Halle, Germany

Well known songs WATER MUSIC, 1717 ISRAEL IN EGYPT, 1730 MESSIAH, 1741 JUDAS MACCABAUS 1747 MUSIC FOR THE ROYAL FIREWORKS, 1749

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL DIED APRIL 14, 1759 LONDON, ENGLAND media type="youtube" key="iQ1aR2RhJnM" height="279" width="339"