GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL German Composer (1685-1759) George Frideric Handel free midi download

GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL
23^rdFebruary 1685 --- 14^thApril 1759

George Frideric Handel was born in 1685 and died in England in 1759. Handel was already showing signs of a Musical talent as a
very young boy, while living in his native Halle, Germany. His father however wanted him to be a lawyer and was determined that
his son should not be distracted by his artistic pursuits. As a precaution, his father banned all musical instruments from the house
At times Handel was even kept away from the school in case he should learn musical notation. It was this stern parental attitude
that would make the young man such a determined musician.

In later life, he also indulged his passion for the arts by building up a first rate private collection of paintings. By the time he was
seven, Handel had learned the basics of playing a keyboard. A "dumb spinet", a small clavichord with its strings bound in cloth to
deaden the sound had been smuggled into the attic, where Handel often stole away to practice. Around this time, Handel's father
set off to the court of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, where his elder son had a post in the Duke's retinue.

Told that he could not go, young Handel doggedly walked after his father's carriage for several miles before the old man relented
and allowed his son to make the journey. At Weissenfels, Handel discovered the chapel organ. He tried his hand on it one day and
was overheard by the Duke,who was so impressed that he announced a genius in the making. The Duke called the boys father and
persuaded him to encourage his son's exceptional talent. Back in Halle. Handel was sent to study with the cathedral organist
F.W.Zachow. Before long, he was playing the violin, oboe and the harpsichord, but his special talent was for the organ Zachow's
lessons involved imitating the style of other composers, so Handel began a lifelong habit of borrowing good ideas from other
people and using them in his own work.

In 1702 Handel went to Halle University to study law in an effort to comply with his fathers wishes. Before long however he had
become the organist at the Calvinist Cathedral in Halle. His studies took second place eventually had to be abandoned altogether.
Thirty kilometres away, in Leipzig, the composer Georg Telemann was also a student and the two men became lifelong friends
exchanging letters filled with their views on life and music. Almost half a century later, Handel was still writing to Telemann and
sending him plants from his garden in England. The most vital influences on Handle's early career came from the time he spent in
Italy. Here in the early 1700's he met and worked with Arangelo Corelli and Domenico Scarlatti. In Rome,people marvelled at the
Saxon's organ playing. Handle took part in a famous contest of keyboard skills with Scarlatti, where he lost the harpsichord battle
but won the accolade for the best organist.

When Handel arrived in England for the first time, in 1710, he was not unknown in London's music circles. It was fashionable for
the well to do to make a grand tour of Europe, if they had not come across Handel in Germany, they certainly would have in Italy
where he spent several successful years writing operas. He composed in the Italian style then all the rage, and his first offering
Rinaldo, to the London stage in 1711, had the audiences on their feet. Here was a man who could do something fresh, his use of
the recorder passages to simulate birdsong was often accompanied by the release of a flock of real sparrows into the auditorium.
Handel already held the post in Germany as musical director to the Elector of Hanover, to which he returned in 1711 after eight
months. But Handel was fascinated by England, his second visit, in 1712, was to last nearly 50 years, the rest of his life.

Now follows some facts on Handel.

1/ 1710 First visit to London
2/ 1711 First London opera, Rinaldo staged
3/ 1712 Settles in London
4/ 1714 Elector of Hanover becomes King George 1 of England
5/ 1717 Composes Water Music for the Kings River pageant
6/ 1718 Appointed resident composer for the Duke of Chandos
7/ 1720 Founds Royal Academy of Music
8/ 1726 Takes British nationality
9/ 1727 Composes anthems for the Coronation of George II
10/1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera produced, Academy closes
11/ 1732 Performance of Esther ushers in era of the oratorio
12/ 1734 Moves opera production to Covent Garden
13/ 1737 Suffers stoke, recuperates in France returns to England
14/ 1738 Six Concertos for Organ and Harpsichord Op.4 published
15/ 1740 Composes his last opera Deidamia.
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