Handel, George Frideric
Period: Baroque
Born: Friday, February 23, 1685 in Halle, Germany
Died: Saturday, April 14, 1759 in London, England
Nation of Origin: Germany/England
Major Works:
Messiah
Almira (1705)
Nero (1705)
Agrippina (1709)
Giulio Cesare (1724)
Tamerlano (1724)
Orlando (1733)
Alcina (1735)
Serse (1738)
Other Information:
Many of Handel's best known works are oratorios (operas without staging).
General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN: 0393097455
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December 1990, ISBN: 0130584967
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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