It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near continuous performance from 1742, when it premiered, all the way up to the present," said author ...

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 ...

For more than three centuries, German-British composer George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah” has been a staple of the classical canon during the holidays. It’s a vaulting oratorio, in English, of the ...

George Frideric Handel wrote his beloved oratorio Messiah in a three-week burst of intense activity during the fall of 1741. While legend declares that this accelerated fervor resulted from divine ...

Handel wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II in 1727. Amazingly the piece has been performed at the coronation service of every British monarch ever since. The words are ...

The composer George Frideric Handel wrote this letter to his friend and librettist Charles Jennens on 19th July 1744. It was written about a year after the London premiere of Handel's great ...

His black marble gravestone in the south transept reads GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL BORN YE 23 FEBRUARY 1684 DIED YE 14 OF APRIL 1759. The coat of arms on his gravestone is now very worn. A 19th century ...

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, ...

Handel wrote Zadok the Priest for the coronation of King George II in 1727. Amazingly the piece has been performed at the coronation service of every British monarch ever since. The words are ...