The stage and screen legend — a two-time Academy Award winner — is attached to star as George Frideric Handel in “The King of Covent Garden,” set during the period the famed opera composer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz musician George Frideric Handel's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, photos and more.

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Music and classical lovers may have encountered the Messiah's ...

"George Frideric Handel: a big man and a lusty one; a naturalized British subject who spoke English with a heavy accent; a man with an explosive temperment and with all a sweet-tempered and even ...

George Frideric Handel (born February 23 1685; died April 14, 1759) is one of the giants of musical history – a great man in physical stature, spirit and vision. His is happy, confident, melodic music ...

George Frideric Handel Handel was born in Germany and took up music after his father died - his dad had wanted him to be a lawyer. When his studies were finished, Handel couldn't find work so he ...

Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. George Frideric Handel was born in Germany in 1685. His father did not want him to be a composer, forbidding any instruments from entering the house.

By 1741 George Frideric Handel was a failure. Bankrupted, in great physical pain, and the victim of plots to sabotage his career, the once-great opera composer scheduled a "farewell" appearance in ...

One of the giants of Western music died 250 years ago Tuesday. George Frideric Handel, for his time, lived a good, long life. He was 74. Handel has been called the first classical music superstar.