HANDEL.

BY

Víctor Luri and Miguel Ángel Maeztu.

-EARLY YEARS.

-WHO WAS HAENDEL?

-LATER YEARS.

-WORKS.

-FAMILY.

-George Friedrich Handel was a German-English Baroque composer, who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi .

-He was born in Germany the 23 of February of 1685(the same year that Bach was born), trained in Italy, and spent most of his life in England.

-He was born in Halle in the Duchy of Magdeburg, he settled in England in 1712, becoming a naturalised subject of the British crown on 20 February 1727.

City of Halle.

-He died the 14 of April of 1759.

-His father was Georg Haendel(1622-1697), he was a barber.

-His father had married in the second nuptials Dorothea Taust(1651-1730), twenty-eight years younger than his father.

-He had two sisters and some step-brothers

- Handel when he was young.

-At an early age Handel became skillful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ.

-One day Handel attracted with his playing the attention of Johann Adolf, his father´s employer.

-Through the Duke’s persuasion, the young Handel was permitted to take lessons in musical composition and keyboard technique from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, the organist of the Lutheran Marienkirche.

-The house in Halle where Handel was born.-Harpsichord.

-In 1710 he moved to London.

-With his magic opera Rinaldo, based on La Gerusalemme Liberata Handel enjoyed great success.

-Following his recovery Handel focused on composing oratorios instead of opera.

-In 1751 his eyesight started to fail in one eye.

The house of Handel in London.

-Handel’s compositions include 42 operas, 29 oratorios , more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, numerous arias, chamber music, a large number of ecumenical pieces, odes and serenatas, and 16 organ concerti.

-His most famous work, the oratorio Messiah with its Hallelujah chorus, is among the most popular works in choral music and has become a centerpiece o the Christmas season.

-Handel’s works have been catalogued in the Handel-Werke-Verzeichnis and commonly referred to by a HWV number.