Definition of Georg Friedrich Handel

1. Noun. A prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759).

Exact synonyms: George Frederick Handel, George Frideric Handel, Handel
Generic synonyms: Composer
Derivative terms: Handelian

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Literary usage of Georg Friedrich Handel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... robustly expansive music, which for all its musical profundity continues genuinely popular, Bach's greatest contemporary, Georg Friedrich Handel (qv), ..."

2. Church Hymnal: By Permission of the General Synod of the Church of Irelandby Church of Ireland, Robert Prescott Stewart by Church of Ireland, Robert Prescott Stewart (1889)
"William Boyce, Mus.D., b. 1710, d. 1779. Johann Hermann Schein, 1628. William Hayes, Mus.D., b. 1707, d. 1777. Georg Friedrich Handel, b. 1685, d. 1759. ..."

3. The Life of George Frederick Handel by William Smyth Rockstro (1883)
"... of ' the already famous Georg Friedrich Handel,'1 with whom he was continually engaged in ' the working-out of melodious compositions, both personally, ..."

4. The Aeolian Pipe-organ and Its Music by Aeolian Company (1919)
"H ANDEL, GEORG FRIEDRICH Georg Friedrich Handel (1685—1759) is one of the mighty figures in music. He was a contemporary of Bach, but stood in violent ..."

5. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1902)
"In the same year there appeared in the same city one of the earliest important works attempted by Georg Friedrich Handel, who was then nineteen years of age ..."

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