GEORGE FREDRIC HANDEL

HALLELUJAH CHORUS

• https://youtu.be/J4JIHvmoN0E
• The Hallelujah chorus was from the messiah.
• The hallelujah chorus was his most famous piece of music

SARABANDE

• https://youtu.be/klPZIGQcrHA

WATER MUSIC

• https://youtu.be/Kuw8YjSbKd4

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• George was the son of a barber and sergeo
• His fathers name was Georg Handel.
• His mothers name was Dorothea Handel.

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• His father died when he was 11
• He did not start of as a musician but he studied music
• Because his father would not let him have a instrument.

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• He went to Domkirche in Halle university.
• He died in London England
• His family was very poor.

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• Handel’s mother, Dorothea Taust, was his father’s second wife. Daughter of a Lutheran Pastor, she bore her husband three children. Among them, George Frideric Handel

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• His father, who wanted him to take up a career in law, was alarmed at Handel’s knack for music and therefore, withdrew him from the gymnasium.

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• He also made sure no musical instrument entered his house and forbade young Handel from visiting any house that had one.

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• Around that time, his father took him to the court of Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, possibly to see one of his half-brothers under the employment of the Duke

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• The Duke, highly impressed by the rendering, told his father to arrange for his music lessons
• Georg Händel, who aspired for a court appointment, could not disregard the suggestion

WEBSITES

• Wikipedia
• Brittanica